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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... running fire of mur- murs , -saying , " Good ! " " That's it ! " and " I'm there too ! " when he concluded his little speech with a vote for the instant death of both the bushwhack- ers . He was followed by others who spoke less ably ...
... running fire of mur- murs , -saying , " Good ! " " That's it ! " and " I'm there too ! " when he concluded his little speech with a vote for the instant death of both the bushwhack- ers . He was followed by others who spoke less ably ...
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... run- ning through an unbroken waste . " The Plains " are very different in their character from the Prairies . Nowhere , after leaving the Mis- souri River westward , does the traveller behold such stretches of grass running to the ...
... run- ning through an unbroken waste . " The Plains " are very different in their character from the Prairies . Nowhere , after leaving the Mis- souri River westward , does the traveller behold such stretches of grass running to the ...
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... run- ning fetlock - deep , with the road still hard under their hoofs , for the soil had not yet had time to dissolve into mud . Torrents were flowing down every incline ; where the plain basined , the water stood in broad sheets ...
... run- ning fetlock - deep , with the road still hard under their hoofs , for the soil had not yet had time to dissolve into mud . Torrents were flowing down every incline ; where the plain basined , the water stood in broad sheets ...
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... run the plough or drive the cattle ; the consideration of how far never once intrudes upon their minds . The absence of fences makes it necessary to keep a tolerable stud of horses for the chase of stray steers . Occasionally a herd of ...
... run the plough or drive the cattle ; the consideration of how far never once intrudes upon their minds . The absence of fences makes it necessary to keep a tolerable stud of horses for the chase of stray steers . Occasionally a herd of ...
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... running at large . They sleep , as well as graze , on the open plain , all the year round , never being driven in , save to yoke , brand , or milk them . These facts make the pastoral life almost Arcadian , as far as labor is con ...
... running at large . They sleep , as well as graze , on the open plain , all the year round , never being driven in , save to yoke , brand , or milk them . These facts make the pastoral life almost Arcadian , as far as labor is con ...
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