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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... further west . As might be expected , the land gives evidence of more spasmodic and irregular disturbances the nearer we approach the great spinal mountain- chain of the Continent . The grass around us was long and rich . Prairie- hens ...
... further west . As might be expected , the land gives evidence of more spasmodic and irregular disturbances the nearer we approach the great spinal mountain- chain of the Continent . The grass around us was long and rich . Prairie- hens ...
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... further accompanied by a dull heat between the shoulders , and a longing for something soft applied to the nape of the neck , I wondered whether this was not what people on shore called wanting to go to bed . The facilities for such a ...
... further accompanied by a dull heat between the shoulders , and a longing for something soft applied to the nape of the neck , I wondered whether this was not what people on shore called wanting to go to bed . The facilities for such a ...
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... further south , when we saw our first antelope . He was a mere glanc- ing spot on the sunny side of a slope two miles off , and disappeared too soon to be resolved by the field - glass . From that time forward we were continually uncov ...
... further south , when we saw our first antelope . He was a mere glanc- ing spot on the sunny side of a slope two miles off , and disappeared too soon to be resolved by the field - glass . From that time forward we were continually uncov ...
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... further , before we found a draw running back into the divide with sides suf- ficiently gradual to permit our descent to the river's first bottom . But none of the time demanded by this detour was thrown away . The view from the brink ...
... further , before we found a draw running back into the divide with sides suf- ficiently gradual to permit our descent to the river's first bottom . But none of the time demanded by this detour was thrown away . The view from the brink ...
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... further truncation by the tools which had felled them . A neater workshop or nicer work than this on the bank of the Republican never existed among the professors of any handicraft . Where the logs had suffered their final reduction ...
... further truncation by the tools which had felled them . A neater workshop or nicer work than this on the bank of the Republican never existed among the professors of any handicraft . Where the logs had suffered their final reduction ...
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