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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... sight could follow . We got no expression for this peculiar gait till George Comstock , looking at a flock of them in full flight , ejaculated , idiomatically , " Lord ! don't they open and shet lively ! " - It was quite amusing to see ...
... sight could follow . We got no expression for this peculiar gait till George Comstock , looking at a flock of them in full flight , ejaculated , idiomatically , " Lord ! don't they open and shet lively ! " - It was quite amusing to see ...
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... sight into the grass . The beautiful creatures lower their noses , and attempt to resume their dinner . But there is something on their minds . After one or two distrait pulls at the sweet grass - roots , their heads are again lifted ...
... sight into the grass . The beautiful creatures lower their noses , and attempt to resume their dinner . But there is something on their minds . After one or two distrait pulls at the sweet grass - roots , their heads are again lifted ...
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... way we should turn , east or west , as nothing more entirely without landmarks than the Plains out of sight of timber can well be imagined . John Gilbert was called upon to decide , while the 42 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... way we should turn , east or west , as nothing more entirely without landmarks than the Plains out of sight of timber can well be imagined . John Gilbert was called upon to decide , while the 42 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... sight ; yet these were only the second line of outposts , - the first , as we had seen , having already been pushed across the river as skirmishers . Some of them stood on the brink of a clay precipice , fifty or sixty feet high ...
... sight ; yet these were only the second line of outposts , - the first , as we had seen , having already been pushed across the river as skirmishers . Some of them stood on the brink of a clay precipice , fifty or sixty feet high ...
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... 'd allays been watered on t'other side . " Both the bulls had now moved out of sight , leav- ing their late sentry - station unoccupied . We con- cluded to move up the draw as fast as possible COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT 51.
... 'd allays been watered on t'other side . " Both the bulls had now moved out of sight , leav- ing their late sentry - station unoccupied . We con- cluded to move up the draw as fast as possible COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT 51.
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