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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... farm - stock of working cattle , than that of two anywhere in the Free States . And this , again , without regard to that quality of the cli- mate which enables the Texan to share in the general monopoly of the South in the production ...
... Farming , 14 ; Corn - bread Begins , 15 ; Lexington , 16 ; Ashland , 17 ; Lexington as a Residence , 18 ; Slaves in Factories ; Toward Louisville , 19 ; Self - defense , 20 ; Black Conversation ; Fugitive Slave Law , 21 ; Louisville ...
... Farming ; The Attractiveness of Western Texas to Emigrants ; Profits of Agriculture , 204 ; Estimate of Expense and Profit of a Stock and Sheep Farm , 205 ; Estimate of Expense and Profit of a Cotton Plantation , 206 INDEX . xxxi.
... ; 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 and Actual Position INDEX . xxxiii.
... farming country , with its appropriate , somewhat tame , rural scenery . At Harper's Ferry , the Potomac hurries madly along high cliffs over a rocky bed , and the effect , as you emerge from a tunnel and come upon the river , is ...