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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... range . I resolved to bring this butte abreast of me , travelling down the middle of the plain , between it and the Republican , then to strike due north for the river , over the ground which had become familiar to us through two days ...
... range . I resolved to bring this butte abreast of me , travelling down the middle of the plain , between it and the Republican , then to strike due north for the river , over the ground which had become familiar to us through two days ...
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... range I had selected , I struck due north for the river , sure of finding our camp and overjoyed at the prospect . I looked from the edge of the bluff , after a toilsome trudge of three miles on a tired horse , and saw everything to ...
... range I had selected , I struck due north for the river , sure of finding our camp and overjoyed at the prospect . I looked from the edge of the bluff , after a toilsome trudge of three miles on a tired horse , and saw everything to ...
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... range of equally barren bluffs , giving us , for the first time in our journey , a sensation of mountain scenery , and , so to speak , strik- ing the resolving chords between the low plains of Kansas and the high plateaus of the Rocky ...
... range of equally barren bluffs , giving us , for the first time in our journey , a sensation of mountain scenery , and , so to speak , strik- ing the resolving chords between the low plains of Kansas and the high plateaus of the Rocky ...
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... range of equally gloomy bluffs , which may be six miles off , and a hundred feet high . In all the view is no tree , no vegetation of any kind which a grown man would not have to stoop to touch , no living thing or sign of any ; for the ...
... range of equally gloomy bluffs , which may be six miles off , and a hundred feet high . In all the view is no tree , no vegetation of any kind which a grown man would not have to stoop to touch , no living thing or sign of any ; for the ...
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... 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 draining a broad plateau south of Denver , and ...
... 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 draining a broad plateau south of Denver , and ...
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