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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... and we were fairly on " The Plains . " For a while we were accompanied by picket fences ; but these , in despair at the idea of limiting immensity , soon gave way to - rails , and by the time we reached Lancaster THE SETTING OUT . 11.
... and we were fairly on " The Plains . " For a while we were accompanied by picket fences ; but these , in despair at the idea of limiting immensity , soon gave way to - rails , and by the time we reached Lancaster THE SETTING OUT . 11.
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... reached Lancaster , a sta- tion merely , not a town , - ten miles out of Atchison , the rails themselves had succumbed , and we were run- ning through an unbroken waste . " The Plains " are very different in their character from the ...
... reached Lancaster , a sta- tion merely , not a town , - ten miles out of Atchison , the rails themselves had succumbed , and we were run- ning through an unbroken waste . " The Plains " are very different in their character from the ...
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... reached there in proper season for delicious suppers , we to - night stopped only long enough to change horses , and I took advantage of the halt to climb to the box . Here I rode the rest of the night , convinced that I could not ...
... reached there in proper season for delicious suppers , we to - night stopped only long enough to change horses , and I took advantage of the halt to climb to the box . Here I rode the rest of the night , convinced that I could not ...
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... reached us with his double buggy and two fast horses on the evening before . Af- ter breakfast we immediately set out in the following order . The artist of the expedition , Munger , and my- self , with a pair of rifles , a shot - gun ...
... reached us with his double buggy and two fast horses on the evening before . Af- ter breakfast we immediately set out in the following order . The artist of the expedition , Munger , and my- self , with a pair of rifles , a shot - gun ...
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... reached the upper debouchment , when a turn to the right uncovered us to another prominence , and there lowered another pair of vengeful red eyes , burning out of a shaggy fell of hair ! We dropped down in an instant , but too late ...
... reached the upper debouchment , when a turn to the right uncovered us to another prominence , and there lowered another pair of vengeful red eyes , burning out of a shaggy fell of hair ! We dropped down in an instant , but too late ...
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