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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... continued to run through a country of only less aridity than preceded our entrance to Fort Kearney . The only spots of brightness on the dreary waste of sand and gramma were the crimson flowers of the ground - poppy , which afford such ...
... continued to run through a country of only less aridity than preceded our entrance to Fort Kearney . The only spots of brightness on the dreary waste of sand and gramma were the crimson flowers of the ground - poppy , which afford such ...
Seite 117
... continued to toss and twist ; he got into deadly combat with the wisps of straw under him ; I heard him send home three or four well - meant blows with his fist against the side of the stall , and then he muttered in a voice of hor- ror ...
... continued to toss and twist ; he got into deadly combat with the wisps of straw under him ; I heard him send home three or four well - meant blows with his fist against the side of the stall , and then he muttered in a voice of hor- ror ...
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... and protruded his flaming crest in the form of the Rocky Mountain summit . We continued passing over extensive undulations all that afternoon , though the harder formations made no visible 118 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... and protruded his flaming crest in the form of the Rocky Mountain summit . We continued passing over extensive undulations all that afternoon , though the harder formations made no visible 118 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... continued all the way to Denver . The river was very narrow , in some places not half its width at Diamond Springs , and began to assume the clear , forcible look of a true mountain stream . Regarding this bright young brook , which ...
... continued all the way to Denver . The river was very narrow , in some places not half its width at Diamond Springs , and began to assume the clear , forcible look of a true mountain stream . Regarding this bright young brook , which ...
Seite 157
... good picture of the formation than a bad picture of the architec- ture or sculpture imitated . The divide continued tolerably level for about ten miles further , flanked on our right by a series PIKE'S PEAK AND THE GARDEN OF THE GODS . 157.
... good picture of the formation than a bad picture of the architec- ture or sculpture imitated . The divide continued tolerably level for about ten miles further , flanked on our right by a series PIKE'S PEAK AND THE GARDEN OF THE GODS . 157.
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