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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... crossed , made me shudder afterward as I thought of them . Now we were plunging with headlong bounds down bluffs of caving sand , fifty feet high , and steep as a fortress glacis , while the buffalo , crazy with terror , were scrambling ...
... crossed , made me shudder afterward as I thought of them . Now we were plunging with headlong bounds down bluffs of caving sand , fifty feet high , and steep as a fortress glacis , while the buffalo , crazy with terror , were scrambling ...
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... crossed each other in its centre . I found one of them a pleasant relief to my tired horse . Pursuing it for half a mile , we emerged from the grove , or more properly became immersed in a thicket . Thorn - bushes hanging covered with ...
... crossed each other in its centre . I found one of them a pleasant relief to my tired horse . Pursuing it for half a mile , we emerged from the grove , or more properly became immersed in a thicket . Thorn - bushes hanging covered with ...
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... crossing the rift and ascending to the top of the bluff , where I would have smooth ground for my return . The difficulty was how to get my horse over . There was no standing - room for a single pair of hoofs at the base of the bluff ...
... crossing the rift and ascending to the top of the bluff , where I would have smooth ground for my return . The difficulty was how to get my horse over . There was no standing - room for a single pair of hoofs at the base of the bluff ...
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... 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 the bottom was a perfect slough , escaped from my embarrassments upon the low ...
... 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 the bottom was a perfect slough , escaped from my embarrassments upon the low ...
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... Crossing the river bottom about a hundred rods from me , I presently saw a man , coatless , hatless , and , to my field - glass , of a rich - brown complexion , black - haired , and carrying a gun . So this was the meaning of the ...
... Crossing the river bottom about a hundred rods from me , I presently saw a man , coatless , hatless , and , to my field - glass , of a rich - brown complexion , black - haired , and carrying a gun . So this was the meaning of the ...
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