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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... present journey until within a day's ride of the Rocky Mountain Watershed , though repeatedly passing over tracts where they might rea- sonably be looked for . That night the wind blew more violently , if possi- ble , than it had at ...
... present journey until within a day's ride of the Rocky Mountain Watershed , though repeatedly passing over tracts where they might rea- sonably be looked for . That night the wind blew more violently , if possi- ble , than it had at ...
Seite 133
... present slight change in our topo- graphical conditions . We found on the long sand - hills which we now had to climb , a greater variety of plants than we had discovered over all the comparative level between O'Fallon's Bluff and ...
... present slight change in our topo- graphical conditions . We found on the long sand - hills which we now had to climb , a greater variety of plants than we had discovered over all the comparative level between O'Fallon's Bluff and ...
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... present road led us from Denver to the crown of the smaller divide , and thence along its surface , to its junction with the larger . I must not omit to say that this latter is the watershed between the Platte and Arkansas rivers . It ...
... present road led us from Denver to the crown of the smaller divide , and thence along its surface , to its junction with the larger . I must not omit to say that this latter is the watershed between the Platte and Arkansas rivers . It ...
Seite 142
... present point of vis- ion to the opening leaves of the peony . A book on the Rocky Mountains should say some- thing about those mountains , yet I confess that I have deliberated well ere deciding to do so . The description I have given ...
... present point of vis- ion to the opening leaves of the peony . A book on the Rocky Mountains should say some- thing about those mountains , yet I confess that I have deliberated well ere deciding to do so . The description I have given ...
Seite 145
... present they are difficult of access , and the most beautiful as well as the richest hunting - grounds in the far West . Elk , deer , and an- telope abound there ; wild animals of the cat kind , headed by the Rocky Mountain lion , are ...
... present they are difficult of access , and the most beautiful as well as the richest hunting - grounds in the far West . Elk , deer , and an- telope abound there ; wild animals of the cat kind , headed by the Rocky Mountain lion , are ...
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