The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 568 Seiten |
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... city . Many of them , on principle , or from a sense of their responsibility , would not drink at all . Between Big Sandy and Comstock's we got our first experience of a thunder - storm on the Plains . At sun- set the clouds were piled ...
... city . Many of them , on principle , or from a sense of their responsibility , would not drink at all . Between Big Sandy and Comstock's we got our first experience of a thunder - storm on the Plains . At sun- set the clouds were piled ...
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... to live in a great city ; yet its diminished roar , heard far off on the rear of the buffaloes , fascinates him like weird music . He was driven out of Texas by the corrupt manners of COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT . 25.
... to live in a great city ; yet its diminished roar , heard far off on the rear of the buffaloes , fascinates him like weird music . He was driven out of Texas by the corrupt manners of COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT . 25.
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... city boys at the East , as from the rustic greenness and awkwardness with which the traditions of romance and the stage invest the young back woodsman . Beside these children of Comstock's and others of the third 32 THE HEART OF THE ...
... city boys at the East , as from the rustic greenness and awkwardness with which the traditions of romance and the stage invest the young back woodsman . Beside these children of Comstock's and others of the third 32 THE HEART OF THE ...
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... city , and burned in diamond points without veil or trembling . The air was of that strange sweetness which , having no scent and being absolutely limpid , is still called spicy and balmy by hyperbole straining vainly for an adequate ...
... city , and burned in diamond points without veil or trembling . The air was of that strange sweetness which , having no scent and being absolutely limpid , is still called spicy and balmy by hyperbole straining vainly for an adequate ...
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... city nights , from the three - o'clock retirings , the nervous tossings , the un- solved problems that write themselves on the bed- curtain of him who lies down without any extinction of his business impetus , or cooling of life's ...
... city nights , from the three - o'clock retirings , the nervous tossings , the un- solved problems that write themselves on the bed- curtain of him who lies down without any extinction of his business impetus , or cooling of life's ...
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