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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... waiters at the North were convinced that they are serv- ants and not gentlemen in disguise . We hope this Herbert affair will teach them prudence . " horses ; and as beads and vermilion have a value XVI A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND .
... Horses , 371 ; Breaking a Wild Horse- Feats of Horsemanship , 372 ; Exhausting Rest ; Eye - water , 373 ; A Stunted Hamlet ; Retrograding Country ; Negroes Taken for Debt ; Germans and Trash , 374 ; Sour Lake - A Lemonade Spring , 375 ...
... Horses - Their Unconquer- able Viciousness , 444 ; The Soil and Climate , 445 ; Meteorological Pheno- mena and Conjectures ; Northwestern Texas , 446 ; The Staked Plain , 447 ; The Pacific Railroad , 449 ; The Rio Grande Country , 451 ...
... horses were obliged to wade slowly , assisted by lash and yells . Though the country was well wooded , and we passed through now and then a piece of forest , I venture to say we met as many hogs as trees in all the earlier part of the ...
... horses ' heels . When we were ready to start , the driver , taking the reins , said to it , " Now then , Charley ; look out for yourself , we're going off . " The bird turned its wise head to one side , gave a sagacious wink with one of ...