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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... snow - white tent , and above it floated St. George's Cross ! If Robinson Crusoe , in one of his goat hunts , had suddenly come to the office of the British consulate , he could not have been taken more aback by that sight than I by ...
... snow - white tent , and above it floated St. George's Cross ! If Robinson Crusoe , in one of his goat hunts , had suddenly come to the office of the British consulate , he could not have been taken more aback by that sight than I by ...
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... snow - peaks . We found it care- fully enshrined , as if it were a Greek god ; for a clear , cold , living fountain may well demand apoth- eosis at the lips which have cooled their fever in it in the midst of the journey beside those ...
... snow - peaks . We found it care- fully enshrined , as if it were a Greek god ; for a clear , cold , living fountain may well demand apoth- eosis at the lips which have cooled their fever in it in the midst of the journey beside those ...
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... snow - peaks . Beyond Spring Hill , the South Platte makes the nearest approach to beauty which you find in it till you see it issuing from its lofty cañon back of Den- ver . All the way that we skirted it during the remainder of the ...
... snow - peaks . Beyond Spring Hill , the South Platte makes the nearest approach to beauty which you find in it till you see it issuing from its lofty cañon back of Den- ver . All the way that we skirted it during the remainder of the ...
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... snow , the ice that never melts . As the entire fact in all its meaning possesses you completely , you feel a sen- sation which is as new to your life as it is impossible of repetition . I confess ( I should be ashamed not to confess ) ...
... snow , the ice that never melts . As the entire fact in all its meaning possesses you completely , you feel a sen- sation which is as new to your life as it is impossible of repetition . I confess ( I should be ashamed not to confess ) ...
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... snow - melting freshet comes thundering down from the range , to surprise human life and property in its murderous rush , as it did in 1864 . At Junction , the next station west of Beaver Creek , we left the Platte , and took a cut ...
... snow - melting freshet comes thundering down from the range , to surprise human life and property in its murderous rush , as it did in 1864 . At Junction , the next station west of Beaver Creek , we left the Platte , and took a cut ...
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