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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... face to the foe . It was the first time I had seen moral grandeur in a brute . Munger , Thompson , and I rode slowly round the bull , attracting his attention by feigned assaults , that our artist might see him in action . As each of us ...
... face to the foe . It was the first time I had seen moral grandeur in a brute . Munger , Thompson , and I rode slowly round the bull , attracting his attention by feigned assaults , that our artist might see him in action . As each of us ...
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... faces , a rolling surf of wind - blown hair , a row of quivering lanterns , burning reddish - brown . The column was as deep as the line . I quickly bethought myself : It is death to get involved in a herd if my horse stumbles . If I ...
... faces , a rolling surf of wind - blown hair , a row of quivering lanterns , burning reddish - brown . The column was as deep as the line . I quickly bethought myself : It is death to get involved in a herd if my horse stumbles . If I ...
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... faces saw me with- out fear . I had only a minute of certain life . The next would see me safe or beaten to a mummy . I dismounted , held my horse's head away from the coming herd , and faced it myself , with the rein over my arm and my ...
... faces saw me with- out fear . I had only a minute of certain life . The next would see me safe or beaten to a mummy . I dismounted , held my horse's head away from the coming herd , and faced it myself , with the rein over my arm and my ...
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... face in to the very eye- brows , drank ravenously , right over the hoof - marks of the buffaloes . Sometimes the water was thicker than cream with mud ; sometimes red with the de- jections of the herd ; always as hot as blood , yet I ...
... face in to the very eye- brows , drank ravenously , right over the hoof - marks of the buffaloes . Sometimes the water was thicker than cream with mud ; sometimes red with the de- jections of the herd ; always as hot as blood , yet I ...
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... face , and asked me if I knew anything about medicine . " Too much , " I replied : " who is sick of it now ? " " Mr. has just been attacked with terrible distress in the epigastrium . He is suffering from wretched cramps , and I don't ...
... face , and asked me if I knew anything about medicine . " Too much , " I replied : " who is sick of it now ? " " Mr. has just been attacked with terrible distress in the epigastrium . He is suffering from wretched cramps , and I don't ...
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