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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... region the luxuriant grass cures on the ground , and makes inexhaustible winter feed , without the trouble of mowing and stacking . The snows never last long enough to starve out the herds left running at large . They sleep , as well as ...
... region the luxuriant grass cures on the ground , and makes inexhaustible winter feed , without the trouble of mowing and stacking . The snows never last long enough to starve out the herds left running at large . They sleep , as well as ...
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... region , that a comparatively small propor- tion of any day is devoted by the Comstocks to actual labor . Comstock himself is as sturdy at sixty - three as he was at forty , and goes out to the patch , across his log bridge , with a hoe ...
... region , that a comparatively small propor- tion of any day is devoted by the Comstocks to actual labor . Comstock himself is as sturdy at sixty - three as he was at forty , and goes out to the patch , across his log bridge , with a hoe ...
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... region by turns a neutral and a fighting ground , poured in to make the " lone women a compulsory visit . Now , an Indian visit is no joke . Even where a tribe pretends to be friendly , its only distinction between that and the hostile ...
... region by turns a neutral and a fighting ground , poured in to make the " lone women a compulsory visit . Now , an Indian visit is no joke . Even where a tribe pretends to be friendly , its only distinction between that and the hostile ...
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... region , the one for its perfume , the other for its color , were a tiny species having the habits and appearance of the water - lily , to whose family I supposed it to belong , and a crimson cup as large as a small althea , whose only ...
... region , the one for its perfume , the other for its color , were a tiny species having the habits and appearance of the water - lily , to whose family I supposed it to belong , and a crimson cup as large as a small althea , whose only ...
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... region of lawns without mansions , and farms without grange or barn . I am wrong in saying " without mansions ; " for on our descent to the broad alluvial level below the bluffs , the faces and voices of merry little colonists greeted ...
... region of lawns without mansions , and farms without grange or barn . I am wrong in saying " without mansions ; " for on our descent to the broad alluvial level below the bluffs , the faces and voices of merry little colonists greeted ...
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