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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... BUFFALO HUNT . COMSTOCK had the early habits , without the aggres- sive and proselyting spirit , of most pioneers . He pit- ied our Eastern weakness , and let us sleep late , which , in Nebraska , means the sybaritic hour of eight a . M ...
... BUFFALO HUNT . COMSTOCK had the early habits , without the aggres- sive and proselyting spirit , of most pioneers . He pit- ied our Eastern weakness , and let us sleep late , which , in Nebraska , means the sybaritic hour of eight a . M ...
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... buffalo - hump and ante- lope - steak , washed down by coffee , surprisingly realis- tic for this latitude of pease and chickory ideals , creamed , moreover , from the sumptuous and unmis- takable udders of nature , proved palatable to ...
... buffalo - hump and ante- lope - steak , washed down by coffee , surprisingly realis- tic for this latitude of pease and chickory ideals , creamed , moreover , from the sumptuous and unmis- takable udders of nature , proved palatable to ...
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... buffaloes , fascinates him like weird music . He was driven out of Texas by the corrupt manners of COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT . 25.
... buffaloes , fascinates him like weird music . He was driven out of Texas by the corrupt manners of COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT . 25.
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... buffalo - bull that ever ran . " " " Comstock is a widower , with a large family of chil- dren , most of them living with him , and two of them having children of their own under his roof . On the Plains there is none of our Eastern ...
... buffalo - bull that ever ran . " " " Comstock is a widower , with a large family of chil- dren , most of them living with him , and two of them having children of their own under his roof . On the Plains there is none of our Eastern ...
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... when work takes them out of pasture , and grain enough to keep his family supplied with flour . He has a vegetable patch , just across the Little Blue from his corral , whose deep , rich loam and thrifty COMSTOCK'S . 27 - -A BUFFALO HUNT .
... when work takes them out of pasture , and grain enough to keep his family supplied with flour . He has a vegetable patch , just across the Little Blue from his corral , whose deep , rich loam and thrifty COMSTOCK'S . 27 - -A BUFFALO HUNT .
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