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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... Brigham Young , caught such a glimpse as this of the land beyond them , they were filled with an ecstasy which spent itself in prayers , dreams , and prophesyings . I can think of no resemblance for it , save my childish impressions of ...
... Brigham Young , caught such a glimpse as this of the land beyond them , they were filled with an ecstasy which spent itself in prayers , dreams , and prophesyings . I can think of no resemblance for it , save my childish impressions of ...
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... Brigham's capital . We resumed our journey at the peril of our lives , the whole Desert at that time reeking with massacre . Here our horrors began . For three hundred miles we rode expecting death in every cañon . But the Indian had no ...
... Brigham's capital . We resumed our journey at the peril of our lives , the whole Desert at that time reeking with massacre . Here our horrors began . For three hundred miles we rode expecting death in every cañon . But the Indian had no ...
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... the invidious name of spies . It is certainly the case , that , by some means or other , nothing happens along the great avenues to Salt Lake , " " of which Brigham Young does not get the THE APPROACH TO SALT LAKE CITY . 285.
... the invidious name of spies . It is certainly the case , that , by some means or other , nothing happens along the great avenues to Salt Lake , " " of which Brigham Young does not get the THE APPROACH TO SALT LAKE CITY . 285.
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... Brigham's preparation to fortify it , several years ago , when , to appease a sudden access of anti - Mor- monism at the East , Government ( or rumor for it ) proposed to send an expedition against Salt Lake City , and break up the ...
... Brigham's preparation to fortify it , several years ago , when , to appease a sudden access of anti - Mor- monism at the East , Government ( or rumor for it ) proposed to send an expedition against Salt Lake City , and break up the ...
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... Brigham selected to fortify before he knew his invaders , is a very Thermopyla . Its bare red walls rise to a height of fifteen hundred feet in a sheer perpendicular . An army of the size of Johnson's could have been decoyed into this ...
... Brigham selected to fortify before he knew his invaders , is a very Thermopyla . Its bare red walls rise to a height of fifteen hundred feet in a sheer perpendicular . An army of the size of Johnson's could have been decoyed into this ...
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