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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... present , I refer to our quandary only as a remarkable illustration of the in- tuitional sixth sense acquired by a man like Gilbert , in protracted frontier experience . It must be remem- bered that since the ranch - wagon had passed ...
... present , I refer to our quandary only as a remarkable illustration of the in- tuitional sixth sense acquired by a man like Gilbert , in protracted frontier experience . It must be remem- bered that since the ranch - wagon had passed ...
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... present distance , if the buffalo - fever could only be held in check . I took deliberate aim , and succeeded in hitting a fine bull , though the ball went too low for his final settlement , and he walked away laboriously to lie down ...
... present distance , if the buffalo - fever could only be held in check . I took deliberate aim , and succeeded in hitting a fine bull , though the ball went too low for his final settlement , and he walked away laboriously to lie down ...
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... buggy were both of them well trained hunters of our present game . They were accordingly put under saddle , — Munger retaining the chestnut , a fine animal named Ben Holladay , after the Overland Stage COMSTOCK'S . — A BUFFALO HUNT . 61.
... buggy were both of them well trained hunters of our present game . They were accordingly put under saddle , — Munger retaining the chestnut , a fine animal named Ben Holladay , after the Overland Stage COMSTOCK'S . — A BUFFALO HUNT . 61.
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... of remains . I ascribe the durability of the matrix in the present instance to a small per cent . of lime acting as a ce- ment . 3. Numerous flat plates of a yellow argillaceous limestone came 96 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... of remains . I ascribe the durability of the matrix in the present instance to a small per cent . of lime acting as a ce- ment . 3. Numerous flat plates of a yellow argillaceous limestone came 96 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... and was very light . At any other time I might cheerfully have sat up with her . In my present state of feeling , I wondered how poets could ever have lingered out of bed long enough to THE BUFFALO COUNTRY TO THE GOLD MINES . 121.
... and was very light . At any other time I might cheerfully have sat up with her . In my present state of feeling , I wondered how poets could ever have lingered out of bed long enough to THE BUFFALO COUNTRY TO THE GOLD MINES . 121.
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