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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... Indian visit is no joke . Even where a tribe pretends to be friendly , its only distinction between that and the ... Indians and anacondas , and loaded with the materials for a month's barter on , - and a fortnight's " drunk . " I asked ...
... Indian visit is no joke . Even where a tribe pretends to be friendly , its only distinction between that and the ... Indians and anacondas , and loaded with the materials for a month's barter on , - and a fortnight's " drunk . " I asked ...
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... Indian last summer got mighty sassy when his band came here , and insisted on having something to drink . At last I got a bottle of Perry Davis's Pain - killer , and handed him that . He just threw his head back , and took it down at ...
... Indian last summer got mighty sassy when his band came here , and insisted on having something to drink . At last I got a bottle of Perry Davis's Pain - killer , and handed him that . He just threw his head back , and took it down at ...
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... Indian's . This by itself makes him a capi- tal shot , and , combined with quick intuitions and great experience , a guide unsurpassed by any I ever saw . Crowning his excellent physical qualities are a dry wit and inexhaustible ...
... Indian's . This by itself makes him a capi- tal shot , and , combined with quick intuitions and great experience , a guide unsurpassed by any I ever saw . Crowning his excellent physical qualities are a dry wit and inexhaustible ...
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... Indian pea . It grows on a long , villous flower - stalk , around which both blossoms and leaves are symmet- rically arranged ; its pistil is carried in a sheath , with the stamens about its base , and its fruit is a pod in shape like a ...
... Indian pea . It grows on a long , villous flower - stalk , around which both blossoms and leaves are symmet- rically arranged ; its pistil is carried in a sheath , with the stamens about its base , and its fruit is a pod in shape like a ...
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... Indian method , and the white men on the Plains have learned as much adroitness in it as their exemplars . The antelope is not afraid of horses ; and by walking in the cover of his saddle - animal , the hunter can get quite near a flock ...
... Indian method , and the white men on the Plains have learned as much adroitness in it as their exemplars . The antelope is not afraid of horses ; and by walking in the cover of his saddle - animal , the hunter can get quite near a flock ...
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