The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1871 - 568 Seiten |
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... antelope - steal , and fricassee of prairie - chickens . But the majority of these impor- tant personages seem to have retired from the world under the influence of an ascetic spirit , and take grim delight in visiting the wrongs ...
... antelope - steal , and fricassee of prairie - chickens . But the majority of these impor- tant personages seem to have retired from the world under the influence of an ascetic spirit , and take grim delight in visiting the wrongs ...
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... antelope . He was a mere glanc- ing spot on the sunny side of a slope two miles off , and disappeared too soon to be resolved by the field - glass . From that time forward we were continually uncov- ering pairs or groups of these lovely ...
... antelope . He was a mere glanc- ing spot on the sunny side of a slope two miles off , and disappeared too soon to be resolved by the field - glass . From that time forward we were continually uncov- ering pairs or groups of these lovely ...
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... antelope is about two years old . The older bucks are occasionally found with other rudiments of this kind . 66 The chief peculiarity of the antelope is his lack of a a dew - claw . " His feet have no rudimentary hoof like the deer's ...
... antelope is about two years old . The older bucks are occasionally found with other rudiments of this kind . 66 The chief peculiarity of the antelope is his lack of a a dew - claw . " His feet have no rudimentary hoof like the deer's ...
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... antelope with unvarying success . It is an old Indian method , and the white men on the Plains have learned as much adroitness in it as their exemplars . The antelope is not afraid of horses ; and by walking in the cover of his saddle ...
... antelope with unvarying success . It is an old Indian method , and the white men on the Plains have learned as much adroitness in it as their exemplars . The antelope is not afraid of horses ; and by walking in the cover of his saddle ...
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... of the spot where we en- countered our first antelope , we saw our first buffa- loes . John Gilbert , the wariest hunter of the whole party , rode alongside of our buggy , and quietly COMSTOCK'S . · 41 - A BUFFALO HUNT .
... of the spot where we en- countered our first antelope , we saw our first buffa- loes . John Gilbert , the wariest hunter of the whole party , rode alongside of our buggy , and quietly COMSTOCK'S . · 41 - A BUFFALO HUNT .
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