The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1871 - 568 Seiten |
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Seite 121
... traveller on this part of the Platte , canned fruit , the sourer the better , is an absolutely indispensable portion of his outfit . The use of that word " outfit , " is curiously broad upon the Plains . It means as many things as the ...
... traveller on this part of the Platte , canned fruit , the sourer the better , is an absolutely indispensable portion of his outfit . The use of that word " outfit , " is curiously broad upon the Plains . It means as many things as the ...
Seite 202
... traveller's eye in the shape of limitless wastes abandoned to this scrubby sage , and the equally scrubby but somewhat greener grease- wood . " For long stages between the high timbered snow - ridges , the only resource for fuel on ...
... traveller's eye in the shape of limitless wastes abandoned to this scrubby sage , and the equally scrubby but somewhat greener grease- wood . " For long stages between the high timbered snow - ridges , the only resource for fuel on ...
Seite 205
... traveller resembles a pleas- ant nightmare ; he feels that if he stayed a night in this wilderness of naked blocks , he would depart mad . The tract is landscape gone demoniacal . Yet even this is weak art compared with the sculptures ...
... traveller resembles a pleas- ant nightmare ; he feels that if he stayed a night in this wilderness of naked blocks , he would depart mad . The tract is landscape gone demoniacal . Yet even this is weak art compared with the sculptures ...
Seite 226
... over the barrenest tracts east of Salt Lake , cling to the ground so close that frequently they are not distinguished from it by the traveller . For the first time on our journey , I found .226 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... over the barrenest tracts east of Salt Lake , cling to the ground so close that frequently they are not distinguished from it by the traveller . For the first time on our journey , I found .226 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
Seite 237
... traveller , yet lived in great comfort and contentedness in what might be called the most out - of - the - way spot on the Northern Continent . His calling was certainly of the most valuable character to his fellow - men , and equally ...
... traveller , yet lived in great comfort and contentedness in what might be called the most out - of - the - way spot on the Northern Continent . His calling was certainly of the most valuable character to his fellow - men , and equally ...
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