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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... ridge yonder is but one of a hundred lying parallel with it to the westward . We have not even yet seen the Rocky Mountains . I remember how the idea of crossing the Rocky Mountains used to look to me . It was an affair some- thing like ...
... ridge yonder is but one of a hundred lying parallel with it to the westward . We have not even yet seen the Rocky Mountains . I remember how the idea of crossing the Rocky Mountains used to look to me . It was an affair some- thing like ...
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... ridges , and , so to speak , alcoved into the very heart of the system . These are the " Parks ; ' and they form one of the most interesting as well as characteristic features of the Rocky Mountain scen- ery . Formations of this kind ...
... ridges , and , so to speak , alcoved into the very heart of the system . These are the " Parks ; ' and they form one of the most interesting as well as characteristic features of the Rocky Mountain scen- ery . Formations of this kind ...
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... view of any one mighty ridge or peak , that I might just as well give its idea by glancing across the whole billowy main as by stopping short where the undulations break on that ice - bound coast 146 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... view of any one mighty ridge or peak , that I might just as well give its idea by glancing across the whole billowy main as by stopping short where the undulations break on that ice - bound coast 146 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... ridges , where the granite and sandstone outcrops projected from fifty to three hun- dred feet above the general sandy level , bare and perpendicular as the side of a house , varied by rolling buttes or ridges of similar height , thinly ...
... ridges , where the granite and sandstone outcrops projected from fifty to three hun- dred feet above the general sandy level , bare and perpendicular as the side of a house , varied by rolling buttes or ridges of similar height , thinly ...
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... ridges , the only resource for fuel on which the emigrant can rely while following the Rocky Moun- tain trail , is this pair of dry , resinous shrubs ; and they burn so freely as to be a great improvement on the method of boiling his ...
... ridges , the only resource for fuel on which the emigrant can rely while following the Rocky Moun- tain trail , is this pair of dry , resinous shrubs ; and they burn so freely as to be a great improvement on the method of boiling his ...
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