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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... streams in this portion of Kansas - timbered with cot- ton - woods , sycamores , oaks , and occasional elms and , a little after sunrise , stopped at " Seventeen Mile Point , " one hundred and eleven miles from Atchison , and the last ...
... streams in this portion of Kansas - timbered with cot- ton - woods , sycamores , oaks , and occasional elms and , a little after sunrise , stopped at " Seventeen Mile Point , " one hundred and eleven miles from Atchison , and the last ...
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... a high bridge without parapets over one of the numerous streams in this region , called Big or Little " Sandy ; " the leaders stopped , and began facing the pole , and we were in imminent danger of 2 THE SETTING OUT . 17.
... a high bridge without parapets over one of the numerous streams in this region , called Big or Little " Sandy ; " the leaders stopped , and began facing the pole , and we were in imminent danger of 2 THE SETTING OUT . 17.
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... stream , swollen to a torrent , under tall cotton- woods , upon our left . The former were " Comstock's ; the latter was the Little Blue . Drenched to the skin , but happy with the memory of the greatest night in my life , I jumped down ...
... stream , swollen to a torrent , under tall cotton- woods , upon our left . The former were " Comstock's ; the latter was the Little Blue . Drenched to the skin , but happy with the memory of the greatest night in my life , I jumped down ...
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... streams , especially where the ground was shaded , grew a small variety of our evening primrose , of several tints , from pale straw - color to nearly orange ; and in low , moist spots I noticed several specimens of a flower only ...
... streams , especially where the ground was shaded , grew a small variety of our evening primrose , of several tints , from pale straw - color to nearly orange ; and in low , moist spots I noticed several specimens of a flower only ...
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... stream , about fif- teen rods in width at the place where we struck it , — full of sandbars and quicksands , with treacherous banks of black and yellow loam , which came near cast- ing our horses when we tried to ford . We managed ...
... stream , about fif- teen rods in width at the place where we struck it , — full of sandbars and quicksands , with treacherous banks of black and yellow loam , which came near cast- ing our horses when we tried to ford . We managed ...
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