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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Seite 85
... cartridge is an entire load , including percussion material , and cleans the bore in leaving it ; nothing can be more portable , simpler , safer . The man who is competent to use a rifle at all COMSTOCK'S . 85 - A BUFFALO HUNT .
... cartridge is an entire load , including percussion material , and cleans the bore in leaving it ; nothing can be more portable , simpler , safer . The man who is competent to use a rifle at all COMSTOCK'S . 85 - A BUFFALO HUNT .
Seite 107
... leaving us just space to pass by a dug - way be- tween it and the river ( one such place , called the Narrows , awakens some anxiety in the breasts of travellers who have not been case - hardened to dan- ger farther west ) ; some broad ...
... leaving us just space to pass by a dug - way be- tween it and the river ( one such place , called the Narrows , awakens some anxiety in the breasts of travellers who have not been case - hardened to dan- ger farther west ) ; some broad ...
Seite 109
... leaving St. Louis . About twenty miles east of the fort , we seemed to reach the top of a new terrace , and thenceforward rode nearly all the way on a level sand - plain , ex- tremely barren , very hot and dusty , and quite distress ...
... leaving St. Louis . About twenty miles east of the fort , we seemed to reach the top of a new terrace , and thenceforward rode nearly all the way on a level sand - plain , ex- tremely barren , very hot and dusty , and quite distress ...
Seite 118
... leaving Comstock's . For miles both east and west of it , we continually climbed and descended hills , and passed through a series of sand cañons , beginning to assume the typ- ical look of the mountain galleries further west . We ...
... leaving Comstock's . For miles both east and west of it , we continually climbed and descended hills , and passed through a series of sand cañons , beginning to assume the typ- ical look of the mountain galleries further west . We ...
Seite 131
... leaving the breakfast station , we struck a low range of tiresome sand - hills resembling those about Julesburg . Through them runs to the Platte , Beaver Creek , the first of a series of short streams , laid down on the maps as ...
... leaving the breakfast station , we struck a low range of tiresome sand - hills resembling those about Julesburg . Through them runs to the Platte , Beaver Creek , the first of a series of short streams , laid down on the maps as ...
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