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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... height , com- pactly made , and in every limb and lineament shows the training of over half a century's pioneer life , hardship having braced instead of shaken him . He began his history in the western part of New York State , when bear ...
... height , com- pactly made , and in every limb and lineament shows the training of over half a century's pioneer life , hardship having braced instead of shaken him . He began his history in the western part of New York State , when bear ...
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... height where he sat on horse- back , they were as invisible to any ordinary eye as if they had been at the bottom of the sea ; and when I did discover them , they would have been as illegible to my understanding for any pathfinding ...
... height where he sat on horse- back , they were as invisible to any ordinary eye as if they had been at the bottom of the sea ; and when I did discover them , they would have been as illegible to my understanding for any pathfinding ...
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... height of the bluff inter- vened between us and them , accounting for a noncha- lance far greater than that of any other absolutely wild animal I am acquainted with . A herd of elk , deer , or antelope would have tossed up their heads ...
... height of the bluff inter- vened between us and them , accounting for a noncha- lance far greater than that of any other absolutely wild animal I am acquainted with . A herd of elk , deer , or antelope would have tossed up their heads ...
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... height that yarn after yarn , joke on joke , surprised the solemn dignity of nature . The simplest saying of any man who has lived like these pioneers much away from his kind takes the form of an aphorism . He has not been where he ...
... height that yarn after yarn , joke on joke , surprised the solemn dignity of nature . The simplest saying of any man who has lived like these pioneers much away from his kind takes the form of an aphorism . He has not been where he ...
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... height , locking them together into their impenetrable roof , with graceful curves and grotesque angles , that surpassed anything in human architecture . It was one of those places continually met with in this region , which so strongly ...
... height , locking them together into their impenetrable roof , with graceful curves and grotesque angles , that surpassed anything in human architecture . It was one of those places continually met with in this region , which so strongly ...
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