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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... Western Texas , if slavery did not interfere , a laboring man with a small capital in stock and tools , would gain wealth as fast as he could in New England , if he were obliged to pay a rent one hundred per cent . higher on the value ...
... WESTERN TEXAS . Over the Colorado ; The Prairies , 129 ; Western Landscapes ; A Mule Lesson , 130 ; A Well - ordered Plantation , 131 ; Agrarian Ideas ; Approach to Ger- mans , 132 ; Agricultural , 133 ; Incomplete Arrangements ; The ...
... Western Louisiana , 391 ; Among the Creoles , 395 ; An Exile from Old Virginia , 397 ; A " Native Dutch Frenchman's " Farm , 401 ; Arrival in Civilization , 405 , To New Orleans , 407 CHAPTER VII . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS . Historical ...
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... Western slope . At length the fields are endless , and you are following upward a big and mud- dy stream which must be - and is , the OHIO . You have reached the great West . Here are the panting , top - heavy steamboats , surging up ...