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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... never last long enough to starve out the herds left running at large . They sleep , as well as graze , on the open plain , all the year round , never being driven in , save to yoke , brand , or milk them . These facts make the pastoral ...
... never last long enough to starve out the herds left running at large . They sleep , as well as graze , on the open plain , all the year round , never being driven in , save to yoke , brand , or milk them . These facts make the pastoral ...
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... never troubled me much . " Comstock has two sons with him beside George , both excellent specimens of the young pioneer , -one about twenty , the other about sixteen years old . They are fine shots , fearless horsemen , industrious ...
... never troubled me much . " Comstock has two sons with him beside George , both excellent specimens of the young pioneer , -one about twenty , the other about sixteen years old . They are fine shots , fearless horsemen , industrious ...
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... never leapt like deer , but ran with level backs , and in smooth rhythm , like sheep , their legs glancing faster than sight could follow . We got no expression for this peculiar gait till George Comstock , looking at a flock of them in ...
... never leapt like deer , but ran with level backs , and in smooth rhythm , like sheep , their legs glancing faster than sight could follow . We got no expression for this peculiar gait till George Comstock , looking at a flock of them in ...
Seite 45
... never saw their life so teeming , and their habits so active , as here on the utterly undisturbed and un- frequented border of the Republican . The little crea- tures made the air lively with their chattering , which is a peculiar short ...
... never saw their life so teeming , and their habits so active , as here on the utterly undisturbed and un- frequented border of the Republican . The little crea- tures made the air lively with their chattering , which is a peculiar short ...
Seite 48
... never existed among the professors of any handicraft . Where the logs had suffered their final reduction , they were of as uniform length as if they had been cut by the gauge , and their conical extremities of such pol- ished smoothness ...
... never existed among the professors of any handicraft . Where the logs had suffered their final reduction , they were of as uniform length as if they had been cut by the gauge , and their conical extremities of such pol- ished smoothness ...
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