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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... stopped his stage , and steadily gazed into the sky until all the passengers alighted and began gaz- ing with him . Somebody said , " What's the matter , driver ? what are you looking at ? " - " Can you see the comet ? " rejoined ...
... stopped his stage , and steadily gazed into the sky until all the passengers alighted and began gaz- ing with him . Somebody said , " What's the matter , driver ? what are you looking at ? " - " Can you see the comet ? " rejoined ...
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... stopping a man on the road who drove a miserable team of sick and aged little mules , with the ejaculation , " Look a'here , pil- grim ! I know a man that would give eight hundred dollars if he could only see them mules ! " " Why ...
... stopping a man on the road who drove a miserable team of sick and aged little mules , with the ejaculation , " Look a'here , pil- grim ! I know a man that would give eight hundred dollars if he could only see them mules ! " " Why ...
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... stopping him . A third time I fired , and without any more valuable effect . The one or two places in which an ounce ball will stop a buffalo - bull , bear a charmed life to the tyro in saddle - shooting . My horse began to be fearfully ...
... stopping him . A third time I fired , and without any more valuable effect . The one or two places in which an ounce ball will stop a buffalo - bull , bear a charmed life to the tyro in saddle - shooting . My horse began to be fearfully ...
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... stopped him with a series of shots from a Colt's army revolver , and was holding him at bay in a grassy basin , for our artist's especial behoof . He , on his part , did not need three words to show him his opportunity . He leapt from ...
... stopped him with a series of shots from a Colt's army revolver , and was holding him at bay in a grassy basin , for our artist's especial behoof . He , on his part , did not need three words to show him his opportunity . He leapt from ...
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... stopped not for stone . " Some draws which we crossed , made me shudder afterward as I thought of them . Now we were plunging with headlong bounds down bluffs of caving sand , fifty feet high , and steep as a fortress glacis , while the ...
... stopped not for stone . " Some draws which we crossed , made me shudder afterward as I thought of them . Now we were plunging with headlong bounds down bluffs of caving sand , fifty feet high , and steep as a fortress glacis , while the ...
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