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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... Utah , and a few shorter pieces elsewhere , the entire route astonished me by its ex- cellence . Just after sundown we arrived at Seneca , a settle- ment as well as a station , sixty miles from Atchison . Here we took tea in quite an ...
... Utah , and a few shorter pieces elsewhere , the entire route astonished me by its ex- cellence . Just after sundown we arrived at Seneca , a settle- ment as well as a station , sixty miles from Atchison . Here we took tea in quite an ...
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... Utah . But the climate is such an antiseptic that the remains seen by me may have been a hundred years old , be- ing white as snow and hardly more than a perfect cast of head and horns in the salts of lime . It is cer- tainly many years ...
... Utah . But the climate is such an antiseptic that the remains seen by me may have been a hundred years old , be- ing white as snow and hardly more than a perfect cast of head and horns in the salts of lime . It is cer- tainly many years ...
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... Utah Lake . This was our first view of Mormondom ; and I could not wonder that when that strange company of enthusiasts , led by Brigham Young , caught such a glimpse as this of the land beyond them , they were filled with an ecstasy ...
... Utah Lake . This was our first view of Mormondom ; and I could not wonder that when that strange company of enthusiasts , led by Brigham Young , caught such a glimpse as this of the land beyond them , they were filled with an ecstasy ...
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... Utah's internal resources . In the mutual relations of the longitudinal and transverse systems of uplift lies a field of study no less important than interesting . Their relative ages ; their conterminous points , or , where such cannot ...
... Utah's internal resources . In the mutual relations of the longitudinal and transverse systems of uplift lies a field of study no less important than interesting . Their relative ages ; their conterminous points , or , where such cannot ...
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... Utah . The theory of this formation , fortunately for the student , has a perfect paradigm in that remarkable reservoir ; and in the proper place I shall show how admirably , yet minutely , it explains itself and many neighboring tracts ...
... Utah . The theory of this formation , fortunately for the student , has a perfect paradigm in that remarkable reservoir ; and in the proper place I shall show how admirably , yet minutely , it explains itself and many neighboring tracts ...
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