Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures: Or, Life in the West. To which is Added a View of the States and Territorial Regions of Our Western Empire: Embracing History, Statistics and Geography, and Descriptions of the Chief Cities of the WestSegner & Condit, 1870 - 775 страница |
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... night , they lighted up the fire of hickory bark to frighten off the wolf ; where the rattlesnake infused his deadly poison into the foot of the rash in- truders on his ancient domain ; where , in the deep grass , they laid prostrate ...
... night , they lighted up the fire of hickory bark to frighten off the wolf ; where the rattlesnake infused his deadly poison into the foot of the rash in- truders on his ancient domain ; where , in the deep grass , they laid prostrate ...
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... night after night , and week after week , with the Indians and her babes , the sole objects of her thoughts and vigils . Would you have an example of fortitude and maternal love , you could turn to no nation for one more touching or ...
... night after night , and week after week , with the Indians and her babes , the sole objects of her thoughts and vigils . Would you have an example of fortitude and maternal love , you could turn to no nation for one more touching or ...
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... night we heard a prodigious yelling , by Indians , some two or three miles below us on the northern shore . We had floated but a little distance farther down the river , when we saw a number of fires on that shore . The yelling still ...
... night we heard a prodigious yelling , by Indians , some two or three miles below us on the northern shore . We had floated but a little distance farther down the river , when we saw a number of fires on that shore . The yelling still ...
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... night in the Indian camps ; " and the red men and squaws " spending whole days and nights ” at Columbia , " regaling themselves with whisky . This friendly demeanor on the part of the Indians , was owing to the kind and just conduct of ...
... night in the Indian camps ; " and the red men and squaws " spending whole days and nights ” at Columbia , " regaling themselves with whisky . This friendly demeanor on the part of the Indians , was owing to the kind and just conduct of ...
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... night ; that hundreds of steamboats are gliding to and fro , over the whole length of the majestic river , forcing commerce to take root and to prosper at every spot ; when I see the surplus population of Europe coming to assist in the ...
... night ; that hundreds of steamboats are gliding to and fro , over the whole length of the majestic river , forcing commerce to take root and to prosper at every spot ; when I see the surplus population of Europe coming to assist in the ...
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