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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... bank . It was the side of the main bluff itself , thirty feet high , and slanting at an angle of little less than seventy degrees . The river had curved around to meet it past the marsh and wood which I had just traversed , cutting away ...
... bank . It was the side of the main bluff itself , thirty feet high , and slanting at an angle of little less than seventy degrees . The river had curved around to meet it past the marsh and wood which I had just traversed , cutting away ...
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... banks grew higher and higher with every rod . I found no sign of human life anywhere , save the remains of a Sioux camp . The occupants had not been long gone ; some of their lodge - poles lay in a bundle near the fire - place , and ...
... banks grew higher and higher with every rod . I found no sign of human life anywhere , save the remains of a Sioux camp . The occupants had not been long gone ; some of their lodge - poles lay in a bundle near the fire - place , and ...
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... bank of the Republican . I was pretty sure that I could find the ford we had crossed , by hunting for our wheel - tracks . I accordingly led my horse down the nearest ramifi- cation of the great draw , and with great difficulty , for ...
... bank of the Republican . I was pretty sure that I could find the ford we had crossed , by hunting for our wheel - tracks . I accordingly led my horse down the nearest ramifi- cation of the great draw , and with great difficulty , for ...
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... bank , stood a snow - white tent , and above it floated St. George's Cross ! If Robinson Crusoe , in one of his goat hunts , had suddenly come to the office of the British consulate , he could not have been taken more aback by that ...
... bank , stood a snow - white tent , and above it floated St. George's Cross ! If Robinson Crusoe , in one of his goat hunts , had suddenly come to the office of the British consulate , he could not have been taken more aback by that ...
Seite 89
... . They immediately pushed for it ; and nearly an hour after the first towel had started from the kettle , Munger and John Gilbert appeared at the further bank of the river , and shouted , " COMSTOCK'S . —A BUFFALO HUNT . 89.
... . They immediately pushed for it ; and nearly an hour after the first towel had started from the kettle , Munger and John Gilbert appeared at the further bank of the river , and shouted , " COMSTOCK'S . —A BUFFALO HUNT . 89.
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