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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... Wall Street bull for a " corner " in Harlem . Nowhere on our travels did we find better oppor- tunities for studying Western tree - formations than along the banks of the Little Blue . The varied structure of the cotton - woods was a ...
... Wall Street bull for a " corner " in Harlem . Nowhere on our travels did we find better oppor- tunities for studying Western tree - formations than along the banks of the Little Blue . The varied structure of the cotton - woods was a ...
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... walls . The human eye is a wonderfully adjustable instrument , becoming a tele- scope for broad generalizations , and a microscope for details . I brought mine to the latter focus , and went hunting for objects of interest over a tract ...
... walls . The human eye is a wonderfully adjustable instrument , becoming a tele- scope for broad generalizations , and a microscope for details . I brought mine to the latter focus , and went hunting for objects of interest over a tract ...
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... walls streamed with little jets , and every object that lay untouched for an hour was powdered half an inch deep . The air was intensely dry and irritating . At sundown it began to thunder and lighten . The flash and roar soon became ...
... walls streamed with little jets , and every object that lay untouched for an hour was powdered half an inch deep . The air was intensely dry and irritating . At sundown it began to thunder and lighten . The flash and roar soon became ...
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... wall bounding your entire western horizon . It is so consistently great , it is a congress of such equal giants , that you cannot compare it with any of the ranges you have seen be- fore . When you rise to a higher plane of vision ...
... wall bounding your entire western horizon . It is so consistently great , it is a congress of such equal giants , that you cannot compare it with any of the ranges you have seen be- fore . When you rise to a higher plane of vision ...
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... wall , to the height of three or four hundred feet . The effect of the sunlight on these brightly colored precipices was splendid in the ex- treme . They guarded the sides of our narrow avenue for a distance of three or four miles , and ...
... wall , to the height of three or four hundred feet . The effect of the sunlight on these brightly colored precipices was splendid in the ex- treme . They guarded the sides of our narrow avenue for a distance of three or four miles , and ...
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