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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... Peak , in California , -I enjoy their memory so heart- ily , that I am fain to spend a portion of this rainy Nebraska day in making their portraits for my readers . Comstock himself is a man about sixty - three , with a head and face ...
... Peak , in California , -I enjoy their memory so heart- ily , that I am fain to spend a portion of this rainy Nebraska day in making their portraits for my readers . Comstock himself is a man about sixty - three , with a head and face ...
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... 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 stagnant ...
... 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 stagnant ...
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... peak . It has no pretense of a fence , but a corral about a hun- dred feet west incloses a barn and two company sta- bles . In front of me stretches a waste of sand , midway in color between an ash - heap and the Rockaway Beach ...
... peak . It has no pretense of a fence , but a corral about a hun- dred feet west incloses a barn and two company sta- bles . In front of me stretches a waste of sand , midway in color between an ash - heap and the Rockaway Beach ...
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... 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 remainder of the afternoon , it was it ...
... 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 remainder of the afternoon , it was it ...
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... Peak , one of the loftiest in the range , rose ghastly on our im- mediate right ; and from the point of high light on its snowy head , the Sierra retreated into increasing mistiness toward the south , becoming a mere film of moonlit ...
... Peak , one of the loftiest in the range , rose ghastly on our im- mediate right ; and from the point of high light on its snowy head , the Sierra retreated into increasing mistiness toward the south , becoming a mere film of moonlit ...
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