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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... Nearly two thousand people were assembled in a deep ravine indented in the rolling plain back of the town , around a lone cotton - wood tree , under which stood the fatal wagon . Such a dreadful multitude may God keep from the death ...
... Nearly two thousand people were assembled in a deep ravine indented in the rolling plain back of the town , around a lone cotton - wood tree , under which stood the fatal wagon . Such a dreadful multitude may God keep from the death ...
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... nearly murdered us , cur- sing his tortuous way along the road , and drove to the next station ourselves . In mentioning this occur- rence , I should say , as an act of justice to the com- pany and its drivers , that it was a very ...
... nearly murdered us , cur- sing his tortuous way along the road , and drove to the next station ourselves . In mentioning this occur- rence , I should say , as an act of justice to the com- pany and its drivers , that it was a very ...
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... nearly as plenty as anywhere on the Plains ; and one afternoon's good sport will replenish the Comstock larders with the best fresh meat known to wild or civilized bills of fare . George Comstock , the eldest son of the old pioneer ...
... nearly as plenty as anywhere on the Plains ; and one afternoon's good sport will replenish the Comstock larders with the best fresh meat known to wild or civilized bills of fare . George Comstock , the eldest son of the old pioneer ...
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... nearly white blossom , known here as the 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 ...
... nearly white blossom , known here as the 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 ...
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... nearly orange ; and in low , moist spots I noticed several specimens of a flower only differing from this in the possession of black spots and a carinated structure dividing the corolla into segments , upon the middle of each of the ...
... nearly orange ; and in low , moist spots I noticed several specimens of a flower only differing from this in the possession of black spots and a carinated structure dividing the corolla into segments , upon the middle of each of the ...
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