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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... Shasta Peak formed the abiding background of every view . Steep , fir - battlemented banks of one generic form , but end- less variety in the beauty of the tree forms and groups which rose from their glacis , mile after mile , framed in ...
... Shasta Peak formed the abiding background of every view . Steep , fir - battlemented banks of one generic form , but end- less variety in the beauty of the tree forms and groups which rose from their glacis , mile after mile , framed in ...
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... Shasta region . As often happens in the discipline of human life , the thorn in the flesh was withdrawn as soon as we had learned the lesson of bearing it resignedly . At the last crossing of the Sacramento , we learned from the ...
... Shasta region . As often happens in the discipline of human life , the thorn in the flesh was withdrawn as soon as we had learned the lesson of bearing it resignedly . At the last crossing of the Sacramento , we learned from the ...
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... Shasta Peak , and which of itself is an unerring test of the original volcanic character of the mountain . The quivers of this Dog Creek tribe were the most beautiful preparations of whole mink , otter , and sable skins , which I have ...
... Shasta Peak , and which of itself is an unerring test of the original volcanic character of the mountain . The quivers of this Dog Creek tribe were the most beautiful preparations of whole mink , otter , and sable skins , which I have ...
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... Shasta Peak . We had now reached an elevation where it was visible to us in its full majesty from the southwestern side . All day , after our leaving Dog Creek , its giant cone , snow - wrapt half way to the base , kept surprising us ...
... Shasta Peak . We had now reached an elevation where it was visible to us in its full majesty from the southwestern side . All day , after our leaving Dog Creek , its giant cone , snow - wrapt half way to the base , kept surprising us ...
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... Shasta Peak is , by the track , nearly eighty miles from that line . To - day , just as the sun got down to the tree - tops , the wooded slope suddenly re- ceded from our left , and towered into one of those noble crags which all over ...
... Shasta Peak is , by the track , nearly eighty miles from that line . To - day , just as the sun got down to the tree - tops , the wooded slope suddenly re- ceded from our left , and towered into one of those noble crags which all over ...
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