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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... traveller behold such stretches of grass running to the horizon , everywhere level like the sea , as he finds in Illinois . The great sedimentary deposits which form the prairies proper , were laid in a period of long quiet , and ...
... traveller behold such stretches of grass running to the horizon , everywhere level like the sea , as he finds in Illinois . The great sedimentary deposits which form the prairies proper , were laid in a period of long quiet , and ...
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... traveller is de- lighted by the entrance of fresh vegetables into a bill of fare , which is elsewhere unqualified pork and greasy potatoes . Occasionally , too , the station - keeper has both time and penchant for hunting ; the happy re ...
... traveller is de- lighted by the entrance of fresh vegetables into a bill of fare , which is elsewhere unqualified pork and greasy potatoes . Occasionally , too , the station - keeper has both time and penchant for hunting ; the happy re ...
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... traveller's tale , and would have filed it alongside of stories about the Gyascutus , or the pelican feeding her young with blood from her own breast . In very truth , the disposition of the buffalo troops is not surpassed by the most ...
... traveller's tale , and would have filed it alongside of stories about the Gyascutus , or the pelican feeding her young with blood from her own breast . In very truth , the disposition of the buffalo troops is not surpassed by the most ...
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... traveller was susceptible on these endlessly uniform divides . I might almost as well have hoped to travel by foam- marks on the waves of the sea as by any idiosyncra- sies in this rolling sward . But as yet I was ignorant and happy ...
... traveller was susceptible on these endlessly uniform divides . I might almost as well have hoped to travel by foam- marks on the waves of the sea as by any idiosyncra- sies in this rolling sward . But as yet I was ignorant and happy ...
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... traveller finds it almost impossible to believe he is not in the park of some lordly demesne . To this feeling all wild animals contribute , but far beyond the rest , the gregarious buffalo , by making paths so like those of a well reg ...
... traveller finds it almost impossible to believe he is not in the park of some lordly demesne . To this feeling all wild animals contribute , but far beyond the rest , the gregarious buffalo , by making paths so like those of a well reg ...
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