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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... Grass , 135 ; San Marcos , 136 ; A Snug Camp , 137 ; Notes of Temperature during a Norther ; A Neighbor of the Germans ; His Report of them , 138 ; German Farms , 140 ; Free - labor Cotton ; A Free - minded Butcher , 141 ; Neu ...
... grass , but gaunt clay , before whose tenacity the city has paused , uncertain whether to " grade " or mount the obstinate barrier . There is a prevalent superstition in Cincinnati that the hinder- ROUTE TO TEXAS . 7.
... grass sod under oaks . The blue grass is in- digenous , and is the same much prized with us for lawns . The oak is the burr oak , bearing a very large edible acorn , an excellent food for hogs . Its leaves are said to decay with great ...
... grass ( not the blue - grass of Kentucky ) takes its place , and is also indigenous upon a poorer class of soils in this region . This is also good food for cattle , but is killed in turn if closely pastured . The ground then becomes ...
... grass , and to all the ordinary neglects and accidents of camp travel , not once did a ball fail to answer the finger . Nothing got out of order , nothing required care ; not once , though carried at random , in coat - pocket or belt ...