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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... bottom by no means easy ; but the enthusiasm of a first hunt would have carried our neophytes cheer- fully twice as far . On We made our way to a precipitous draw , entering the bluff at a distance of three miles from our camp , and ...
... bottom by no means easy ; but the enthusiasm of a first hunt would have carried our neophytes cheer- fully twice as far . On We made our way to a precipitous draw , entering the bluff at a distance of three miles from our camp , and ...
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... bottom for the rest of the chase , the buffalo laboring heavily , and their immense fore - parts coming down on their hoofs with a harder shock at every jump . Now we saw a broad , slippery buffalo - wallow just in time to leap it clear ...
... bottom for the rest of the chase , the buffalo laboring heavily , and their immense fore - parts coming down on their hoofs with a harder shock at every jump . Now we saw a broad , slippery buffalo - wallow just in time to leap it clear ...
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... bottom of the river descended by two well - marked curving terraces ; there was a fine old cotton - wood grove , with a pair of gaps in it where the beavers had been felling ; above this grove I saw a broad yellow sand- bar running ...
... bottom of the river descended by two well - marked curving terraces ; there was a fine old cotton - wood grove , with a pair of gaps in it where the beavers had been felling ; above this grove I saw a broad yellow sand- bar running ...
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... bottom . The water vegetation in it was almost tropically rank , and its pools swarmed with ducks . I had no time or thought for shooting . I dismounted from my horse , and , find- ing the bluff loose and sandy ten feet up , I led him ...
... bottom . The water vegetation in it was almost tropically rank , and its pools swarmed with ducks . I had no time or thought for shooting . I dismounted from my horse , and , find- ing the bluff loose and sandy ten feet up , I led him ...
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... bottom entirely . But this I did not know till afterward . I explained the nearness of the river to the precipice , by supposing that the bed of the for- mer had fallen within the last two miles sufficiently to bring the first bottom as ...
... bottom entirely . But this I did not know till afterward . I explained the nearness of the river to the precipice , by supposing that the bed of the for- mer had fallen within the last two miles sufficiently to bring the first bottom as ...
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