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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... river at our feet , on its way over dusky sand - bars to carry the message of the Rocky Mountain snows to the soft current of the Gulf and the mad waves of the Atlantic . We lay half - way between great mysteries , in the lap of a ...
... river at our feet , on its way over dusky sand - bars to carry the message of the Rocky Mountain snows to the soft current of the Gulf and the mad waves of the Atlantic . We lay half - way between great mysteries , in the lap of a ...
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... river six miles further south . We had gone about three miles across a rolling coun- try , much like the plain traversed from Comstock's , without seeing anything but the rear of the herd lately stampeded by us , when John Gilbert ...
... river six miles further south . We had gone about three miles across a rolling coun- try , much like the plain traversed from Comstock's , without seeing anything but the rear of the herd lately stampeded by us , when John Gilbert ...
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... river , over the ground which had become familiar to us through two days ' hunt . This matter was easier to promise than accomplish . I little knew the deception of which a traveller was susceptible on these endlessly uniform divides ...
... river , over the ground which had become familiar to us through two days ' hunt . This matter was easier to promise than accomplish . I little knew the deception of which a traveller was susceptible on these endlessly uniform divides ...
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... river stretched a swale of dry grass , bounded by two expanses of green herbage ; the first bottom of the river descended by two well - marked curving terraces ; there was a fine old cotton - wood grove , with a pair of gaps in it where ...
... river stretched a swale of dry grass , bounded by two expanses of green herbage ; the first bottom of the river descended by two well - marked curving terraces ; there was a fine old cotton - wood grove , with a pair of gaps in it where ...
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... river timber , at the best rate my horse could travel . A mile down I was stopped by an impassable swamp , running entirely across from the foot of the bluff to the river bottom . The water vegetation in it was almost tropically rank ...
... river timber , at the best rate my horse could travel . A mile down I was stopped by an impassable swamp , running entirely across from the foot of the bluff to the river bottom . The water vegetation in it was almost tropically rank ...
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