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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... springs , painted red , with heavy wheels and axles , having a flat arched roof of water - proof cloth erected on strong posts , like those of a rockaway , and to this are attached curtains of the same fabric , which in bad weather may ...
... springs , painted red , with heavy wheels and axles , having a flat arched roof of water - proof cloth erected on strong posts , like those of a rockaway , and to this are attached curtains of the same fabric , which in bad weather may ...
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... Spring- chicken , quail - breast , or frog's hind legs , are not more delicate ; and there is a flavor in the juice quite in- describable , belonging in fact to the idiosyncrasies and monopolies of nature . We had our antelope cooked in ...
... Spring- chicken , quail - breast , or frog's hind legs , are not more delicate ; and there is a flavor in the juice quite in- describable , belonging in fact to the idiosyncrasies and monopolies of nature . We had our antelope cooked in ...
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... spring sunshine we were on our feet again , and but a little later saw us as deep as we could get in the clear , bracing water of the Re- publican . Thoroughly refreshed , we made our break- fast off our own stores , -supper having ...
... spring sunshine we were on our feet again , and but a little later saw us as deep as we could get in the clear , bracing water of the Re- publican . Thoroughly refreshed , we made our break- fast off our own stores , -supper having ...
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... spring - board ; and the two courtesies were but three weeks apart . Our artist , though a good shot , and capable of going to market for himself wherever there was any game , as well as most people , had seen enough buf- falo - hunting ...
... spring - board ; and the two courtesies were but three weeks apart . Our artist , though a good shot , and capable of going to market for himself wherever there was any game , as well as most people , had seen enough buf- falo - hunting ...
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... springs in ' em . " Then , with a ponderous trot , the whole line was away . We were about two hundred and fifty yards from them when the stampede became general . This was altogether too far for effective shooting from the saddle ...
... springs in ' em . " Then , with a ponderous trot , the whole line was away . We were about two hundred and fifty yards from them when the stampede became general . This was altogether too far for effective shooting from the saddle ...
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