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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... antelope was dressing for dinner ( the last he should ever be invited to , poor little fellow ! ) a few of us strolled out beyond the timber with our field - glasses . We did not need them to discover that the crown of the whole adjoin ...
... antelope was dressing for dinner ( the last he should ever be invited to , poor little fellow ! ) a few of us strolled out beyond the timber with our field - glasses . We did not need them to discover that the crown of the whole adjoin ...
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... antelope would have tossed up their heads and been away down the wind before we could have snapped our fingers at them . This bovine stolidity , as we shall see hereafter , is no result of misplaced confidence in human goodness , but a ...
... antelope would have tossed up their heads and been away down the wind before we could have snapped our fingers at them . This bovine stolidity , as we shall see hereafter , is no result of misplaced confidence in human goodness , but a ...
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... antelope's head , which had been left entire for his purpose , while the two other gentlemen of our Overland party , accompanied by John Gilbert , Ansell Comstock , Butler , and myself , shouldered our guns and started for the bluff ...
... antelope's head , which had been left entire for his purpose , while the two other gentlemen of our Overland party , accompanied by John Gilbert , Ansell Comstock , Butler , and myself , shouldered our guns and started for the bluff ...
Seite 54
... antelope , depends scarcely at all on his scent ; but those great round eyes of his , glowing in their earnestness or anger , like balls of fiery asphaltum , possess a length of range , and an inevitability of keenness , scarcely ...
... antelope , depends scarcely at all on his scent ; but those great round eyes of his , glowing in their earnestness or anger , like balls of fiery asphaltum , possess a length of range , and an inevitability of keenness , scarcely ...
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... antelope with it at six hundred . I was sure I might rely on it at my present distance , if the buffalo - fever could only be held in check . I took deliberate aim , and succeeded in hitting a fine bull , though the ball went too low ...
... antelope with it at six hundred . I was sure I might rely on it at my present distance , if the buffalo - fever could only be held in check . I took deliberate aim , and succeeded in hitting a fine bull , though the ball went too low ...
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