The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1871 - 568 Seiten |
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... nature to bother their heads especially re- garding government . But government , while man- kind stays selfish , never can regulate itself . While the workers are felling trees , breaking roads , and building cabins , the knaves and do ...
... nature to bother their heads especially re- garding government . But government , while man- kind stays selfish , never can regulate itself . While the workers are felling trees , breaking roads , and building cabins , the knaves and do ...
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... nature after leaving the Republican Fork , passing Fort Kearney , where the main herd makes its most frequent transit to the plains north of the Platte , some weeks before they crossed the road there . The Concord wagon rumbled out of ...
... nature after leaving the Republican Fork , passing Fort Kearney , where the main herd makes its most frequent transit to the plains north of the Platte , some weeks before they crossed the road there . The Concord wagon rumbled out of ...
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... Nature and the wheels of travel are here the only menders of highway . In some places it was as com- pact and smooth as the finest gravel roads of the East . Indeed , with the exception of the portion traversing the terrible desert of ...
... Nature and the wheels of travel are here the only menders of highway . In some places it was as com- pact and smooth as the finest gravel roads of the East . Indeed , with the exception of the portion traversing the terrible desert of ...
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... nature , mad hurricanes and thunder - storms , on sea or land , there never visited me anything to com- pare in awful splendor , and the impression of ungov- erned power , with this upward lightning - stroke on the Nebraska Plains ...
... nature , mad hurricanes and thunder - storms , on sea or land , there never visited me anything to com- pare in awful splendor , and the impression of ungov- erned power , with this upward lightning - stroke on the Nebraska Plains ...
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... nature , proved palatable to us in the highest degree . I like so much to think of the Comstocks- one of the best , truest , kindest families of pioneer people we met in our whole journey , and having no equals for typical character or ...
... nature , proved palatable to us in the highest degree . I like so much to think of the Comstocks- one of the best , truest , kindest families of pioneer people we met in our whole journey , and having no equals for typical character or ...
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