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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... Crossing at the Sabine , 388 ; The Drover's Story , 390 ; 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 ...
... crossed the river upon a dirty little high pressure ferry - boat , and drove through the streets of Covington . This city , with its low and scattered buildings , has the aspect of a suburb , as in fact it is . It is spread loosely over ...
... Crossed the Neches into Houston County . This day's ride and the next were through a very poor country , clay or sand soil , bearing short oaks and black - jack . We passed one small meadow , or prairie , covered with coarse grass ...
... crossed . Like all the eastern rivers of Texas it is thick with mud . The Colorado is the first stream that runs clear . West of it each becomes more limpid as you progress . The water of the Medina , twenty miles beyond San Antonio ...
... crossed Trinity River . After having been shut in during so many days by dreary winter forests , we were quite exhilarated at coming out upon an open country and a distant view . During the whole day's ride the soil improved , and the ...