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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... in the heat of my first buffalo fever , but streaming wind , a great oscillating patch of hair and hide beyond me , and a sound of tram- pling like steady thunder . My horse was crazy with 64 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... in the heat of my first buffalo fever , but streaming wind , a great oscillating patch of hair and hide beyond me , and a sound of tram- pling like steady thunder . My horse was crazy with 64 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... stream into the river . I tied my horse for a moment , plunged down into the fissure , and drank till it seemed as if I should burst . Climbing up again , I surveyed the opposite bank . It was the side of the main bluff itself , thirty ...
... stream into the river . I tied my horse for a moment , plunged down into the fissure , and drank till it seemed as if I should burst . Climbing up again , I surveyed the opposite bank . It was the side of the main bluff itself , thirty ...
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... stream into its fringing timber , and , dismounting from Nig , took steady aim at the nearest buffalo . He was grazing with his haunches toward me . The ball broke his right hip , and he plunged away on three legs , the other swinging ...
... stream into its fringing timber , and , dismounting from Nig , took steady aim at the nearest buffalo . He was grazing with his haunches toward me . The ball broke his right hip , and he plunged away on three legs , the other swinging ...
Seite 96
... stream . Some of the masses cracked across with a true slaty fracture , square and straight , breaking under slight pressure . Some bent like fresh clay . All laminated easily . A large number of specimens con- tained shells ; some of ...
... stream . Some of the masses cracked across with a true slaty fracture , square and straight , breaking under slight pressure . Some bent like fresh clay . All laminated easily . A large number of specimens con- tained shells ; some of ...
Seite 98
... stream with tenacious clay banks like the Republican . This view opened to me a new field of speculation upon the aqueous and igneous theories of many formations . 5. The pebbles and breccia - like detritus which in- here in the above ...
... stream with tenacious clay banks like the Republican . This view opened to me a new field of speculation upon the aqueous and igneous theories of many formations . 5. The pebbles and breccia - like detritus which in- here in the above ...
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