A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... Indians which seems to us absurd , so , among you , has the power of commanding the service of slaves . Consequently you are willing to pay a price for it which , to one not educated as you have been , seems absurdly high . Nor are you ...
... Indian Camp , 288 ; A Ride with the Noble Savage , 290 ; Indian Depredations , 294 ; Indians in Texas , 295 ; Their Condition and Treatment , 296 ; The Best Policy , 297 ; Frontier De- fenses , 298 ; Texas Rangers - A Sketch of their ...
... Indians , 345 ; Lodgings : A Mexican Interior , 346 ; Tortillas ; A Pretty Study , 348 ; A Mexican Repast , 349 ; A Savage , 351 ; The Faculty in Mexico , 352 ; Annexation , 353 ; An Agricultural Proprietor , 354 ; Condition of Mexico ...
... Indian corn , which furnishes the food for man and beast , and the cash sales evidently of hogs and beef . of the farms had been a great while under cultivation . Many Large old orchards were frequent , now loaded with apples left 14 A ...
... Indian country , hundreds of miles from any resources but our own . We accordingly provided ourselves , before leav- ing home , with the best equipment we could devise for the pur- pose , and to carry the necessary weight with the most ...