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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... never tired of hearing about New York , Boston , Philadelphia , their prominent people and institutions . I think he felt the same kind of interest in them that a boy feels in the Island of San Juan de Fernandez . An ideal blessedness ...
... never tired of hearing about New York , Boston , Philadelphia , their prominent people and institutions . I think he felt the same kind of interest in them that a boy feels in the Island of San Juan de Fernandez . An ideal blessedness ...
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... never tires of talking about people who have helped her at the East . " I would go fur- ther , " said he one day , " to take a look at Henry Ward Beecher , than to see the biggest old buffalo - bull that ever ran . " " " Comstock is a ...
... never tires of talking about people who have helped her at the East . " I would go fur- ther , " said he one day , " to take a look at Henry Ward Beecher , than to see the biggest old buffalo - bull that ever ran . " " " Comstock is a ...
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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 ...
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