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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... stopping , and returned from the Pacific coast - as was then possible , and eventually proved actual - by the way of Pan- ama or Nicaragua . We accordingly made arrange- ments with Mr. Munger to lie by and wait for him about one hundred ...
... stopping , and returned from the Pacific coast - as was then possible , and eventually proved actual - by the way of Pan- ama or Nicaragua . We accordingly made arrange- ments with Mr. Munger to lie by and wait for him about one hundred ...
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... stopped only long enough to change horses , and I took advantage of the halt to climb to the box . Here I rode the rest of the night , convinced that I could not surrender to Sleep until he had made a more protracted siege around the ...
... stopped only long enough to change horses , and I took advantage of the halt to climb to the box . Here I rode the rest of the night , convinced that I could not surrender to Sleep until he had made a more protracted siege around the ...
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... stopped for dinner about noon ; but our recollections of a station breakfast were not sufficiently fascinating to tempt us into sitting down at table . We now had occasion to congratulate our- selves on our provision in the matter of ...
... stopped for dinner about noon ; but our recollections of a station breakfast were not sufficiently fascinating to tempt us into sitting down at table . We now had occasion to congratulate our- selves on our provision in the matter of ...
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... stopped long enough to do , or get any cooking done , on our behalf , we always varied our else carnivorous meal by something succulent from the Shakers ' tins . By this time the whole party were greatly distressed from loss of sleep ...
... stopped long enough to do , or get any cooking done , on our behalf , we always varied our else carnivorous meal by something succulent from the Shakers ' tins . By this time the whole party were greatly distressed from loss of sleep ...
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... stopped , quite provoked at himself , and with his horse thor- oughly winded , to see their " clean linen " flash for an instant in the sun , as they went out of sight among some thick cotton - wood on the edge of a distant run . It was ...
... stopped , quite provoked at himself , and with his horse thor- oughly winded , to see their " clean linen " flash for an instant in the sun , as they went out of sight among some thick cotton - wood on the edge of a distant run . It was ...
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