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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... Rock Buttes , which we knew to be many miles away to the southward , came out clear and strong , so that we could see the undulations of their surface almost as plainly as if they were in the near foreground . The whole extent of ...
... Rock Buttes , which we knew to be many miles away to the southward , came out clear and strong , so that we could see the undulations of their surface almost as plainly as if they were in the near foreground . The whole extent of ...
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... rock , defying the gods . Kill a deer , and he pleads with you out of his wet , dying eye ; a bear falls headlong with a grunt , and gives up his stolid ghost without more ado , if the bullet is mortal ; but here was a monster whose ...
... rock , defying the gods . Kill a deer , and he pleads with you out of his wet , dying eye ; a bear falls headlong with a grunt , and gives up his stolid ghost without more ado , if the bullet is mortal ; but here was a monster whose ...
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... southwesterly direction , leading diagonally between the main course of the Republican and a line of tall , conical mounds , called the White Rock Buttes , parallel with the river six miles further south 70 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... southwesterly direction , leading diagonally between the main course of the Republican and a line of tall , conical mounds , called the White Rock Buttes , parallel with the river six miles further south 70 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... Rock Buttes , an entire breadth of more than six miles . I had no way of measuring the unbounded plain , looking westerly ; but a man on horseback , in the clear air of the region , and with a field - glass of Voigtlander's as good as ...
... Rock Buttes , an entire breadth of more than six miles . I had no way of measuring the unbounded plain , looking westerly ; but a man on horseback , in the clear air of the region , and with a field - glass of Voigtlander's as good as ...
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... Rock range . I resolved to bring this butte abreast of me , travelling down the middle of the plain , between it and the Republican , then to strike due north for the river , over the ground which had become familiar to us through two ...
... Rock range . I resolved to bring this butte abreast of me , travelling down the middle of the plain , between it and the Republican , then to strike due north for the river , over the ground which had become familiar to us through two ...
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