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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... less dif- ference between the Yankee mountaineer and the Western plainsman than their local varieties of scene and habit would lead one to expect . The terseness and epigrammatic smack of both comes from isola- tion , and their talk has ...
... less dif- ference between the Yankee mountaineer and the Western plainsman than their local varieties of scene and habit would lead one to expect . The terseness and epigrammatic smack of both comes from isola- tion , and their talk has ...
Seite 66
... less ashamed of myself on learning that a buffalo will travel , and get clear of capture , with a slug through the apex of that organ , nothing short of disturbing its valvular arrangement having the immediate effect to bring him down ...
... less ashamed of myself on learning that a buffalo will travel , and get clear of capture , with a slug through the apex of that organ , nothing short of disturbing its valvular arrangement having the immediate effect to bring him down ...
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... less than a quarter of an hour , we stood , or sat , beside Munger and the champing Ben Holladay . That makes two : there were three of his company . He had ridden upon as big a bull as ever ran the Plains , stopped him with a series of ...
... less than a quarter of an hour , we stood , or sat , beside Munger and the champing Ben Holladay . That makes two : there were three of his company . He had ridden upon as big a bull as ever ran the Plains , stopped him with a series of ...
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... less than seventy degrees . The river had curved around to meet it past the marsh and wood which I had just traversed , cutting away the first bottom entirely . But this I did not know till afterward . I explained the nearness of the ...
... less than seventy degrees . The river had curved around to meet it past the marsh and wood which I had just traversed , cutting away the first bottom entirely . But this I did not know till afterward . I explained the nearness of the ...
Seite 97
... less recent balls which we brought up from the bed were two feet in circumfer- ence , and little else than a mass of pebbles , cemented by hardened clay . Several were so compacted and indurated that the surface seemed nearly as homoge ...
... less recent balls which we brought up from the bed were two feet in circumfer- ence , and little else than a mass of pebbles , cemented by hardened clay . Several were so compacted and indurated that the surface seemed nearly as homoge ...
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