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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... 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 for his final settlement , and he walked away laboriously to lie down where I ...
... 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 for his final settlement , and he walked away laboriously to lie down where I ...
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... distance of my game where I should have been ashamed to miss a hat - crown at standing fire . I whirled my carbine round from my back , and dropping the reins let drive for the back of the foreshoulder . Good inten- tion ! The slug went ...
... distance of my game where I should have been ashamed to miss a hat - crown at standing fire . I whirled my carbine round from my back , and dropping the reins let drive for the back of the foreshoulder . Good inten- tion ! The slug went ...
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... distance between me and the herd ahead . I had just made up my mind to ride as long as he would stand in the line of the stampede , when the herd before me divided into two columns to pass around a low butte I had seen before . Quick as ...
... distance between me and the herd ahead . I had just made up my mind to ride as long as he would stand in the line of the stampede , when the herd before me divided into two columns to pass around a low butte I had seen before . Quick as ...
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... distance from home when I reached the main herd , and found it unlikely that I could have made enough return with my tired horse to have brought me abreast of the camp again . I set off along the edge of the river timber , at the best ...
... distance from home when I reached the main herd , and found it unlikely that I could have made enough return with my tired horse to have brought me abreast of the camp again . I set off along the edge of the river timber , at the best ...
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... distance invariably threw the ball above , unless allowance was made for its habits . I spent as much time in calculating my aim as a boy of ten over a sum in division , and fired resting on my elbows . My brown spot went up into the ...
... distance invariably threw the ball above , unless allowance was made for its habits . I spent as much time in calculating my aim as a boy of ten over a sum in division , and fired resting on my elbows . My brown spot went up into the ...
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