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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... turned , as the last lag- gards panted by the mound , and , for the first time since I reached my elevation , paid attention to the westward . Then I understood why the stampeders had halted so soon . They had come up with the main herd ...
... turned , as the last lag- gards panted by the mound , and , for the first time since I reached my elevation , paid attention to the westward . Then I understood why the stampeders had halted so soon . They had come up with the main herd ...
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... turned and began retracing my steps , leading my horse by the bridle . Poor Nig was so battered by his day's strain and hunger that I could make better time in this way than on his back . A new misfortune now appeared to me . What ...
... turned and began retracing my steps , leading my horse by the bridle . Poor Nig was so battered by his day's strain and hunger that I could make better time in this way than on his back . A new misfortune now appeared to me . What ...
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... turned a cart - wheel , and fell on his side in his tracks . The next moment I saw how impossible it was to get him , but went down the draw excusing the murder by a promise to go after him to - morrow . When that morrow came , he was a ...
... turned a cart - wheel , and fell on his side in his tracks . The next moment I saw how impossible it was to get him , but went down the draw excusing the murder by a promise to go after him to - morrow . When that morrow came , he was a ...
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... turned off in the wrong direction from the high northern divide , and found a series of bad draws and rough hammocks , which much ham- pered their progress . It was as John Gilbert had said . His unerring eye had not failed him . I now ...
... turned off in the wrong direction from the high northern divide , and found a series of bad draws and rough hammocks , which much ham- pered their progress . It was as John Gilbert had said . His unerring eye had not failed him . I now ...
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... turned back to camp in despair . They had just con- cluded to do so , when my beacon flamed up through the dark . I thought of these things with a tendency to philosophize , but Zeno himself would have gone to sleep after such a day as ...
... turned back to camp in despair . They had just con- cluded to do so , when my beacon flamed up through the dark . I thought of these things with a tendency to philosophize , but Zeno himself would have gone to sleep after such a day as ...
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