A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier, with a Statistical AppendixBrookhaven Press, 1859 - Počet stran: 516 |
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Strana xxxiii
... Horses , 371 ; Breaking a Wild Horse— Feats of Horsemanship , 372 ; Exhausting Rest ; Eye - water , 373 ; A Stunted Hamlet ; Retrograding Country ; Negroes Taken for Debt ; Germans and Trash , 374 ; Sour Lake - A Lemonade Spring , 375 ...
... Horses , 371 ; Breaking a Wild Horse— Feats of Horsemanship , 372 ; Exhausting Rest ; Eye - water , 373 ; A Stunted Hamlet ; Retrograding Country ; Negroes Taken for Debt ; Germans and Trash , 374 ; Sour Lake - A Lemonade Spring , 375 ...
Strana xxxiv
... Horses - Their Unconquer- able Viciousness , 444 ; The Soil and Climate , 445 ; Meteorological Pheno- mena and Conjectures ; Northwestern Texas , 446 ; The Staked Plain 447 ; The Pacific Railroad , 449 ; The Rio Grande Country , 451 ...
... Horses - Their Unconquer- able Viciousness , 444 ; The Soil and Climate , 445 ; Meteorological Pheno- mena and Conjectures ; Northwestern Texas , 446 ; The Staked Plain 447 ; The Pacific Railroad , 449 ; The Rio Grande Country , 451 ...
Strana 12
... horses were obliged to wade slowly , assisted by lash and yells . Though the country was well wooded , and we passed through now and then a piece of forest , I venture to say we met as many hogs as trees in all the earlier part of the ...
... horses were obliged to wade slowly , assisted by lash and yells . Though the country was well wooded , and we passed through now and then a piece of forest , I venture to say we met as many hogs as trees in all the earlier part of the ...
Strana 16
... horses ' heels . When we were ready to start , the driver , taking the reins , said to it , " Now then , Charley ; look out for yourself , we're going off . " The bird turned its wise head to one side , gave a sagacious wink with one of ...
... horses ' heels . When we were ready to start , the driver , taking the reins , said to it , " Now then , Charley ; look out for yourself , we're going off . " The bird turned its wise head to one side , gave a sagacious wink with one of ...
Strana 45
Frederick Law Olmsted. OUR MOUNT . We spent several days in Natchitoches purchasing horses and completing the preparations for our vagrant life in Texas . Finding little that was eligible in the horse - market , and hoping to do bet- ter ...
Frederick Law Olmsted. OUR MOUNT . We spent several days in Natchitoches purchasing horses and completing the preparations for our vagrant life in Texas . Finding little that was eligible in the horse - market , and hoping to do bet- ter ...
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