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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... live in far less comfort than the Iowan , because of the want of local shops and efficient systems of public conveyance which cheapen the essentials of comfort for the latter . You will , perhaps , say that I neglect to pay the Iowan ...
... lives , than they would have done but for this your policy of extending slavery over Texas , and thereby permanently * Of this class , frequent notes on live stock will be found in the volume . The exception which Kentucky offers to all ...
... Live Freight , 34 ; Nashville , 35 ; Return to the Ohio ; The " Sultana , ” 37 ; The Mississippi , 38 . CHAPTER II . ROUTE ACROSS EASTERN TEXAS . Routes into Texas , 43 ; Red River , 44 ; Our Mount , 45 ; A Red River Planta- tion , 46 ...
... LIVE FREIGHT . One evening we were hailed in the darkness to come in and take some freight aboard . It proved to be a negro woman which her master wished to send to Nashville . Putting her on board , he demanded a bill of lading . The ...
... live oak and the palmetto along the shore , preluding but little the roses , jes- samines , and golden oranges , the waving brightness of the cane- fields , and the drifting clouds from the sugar works . Human life along the Mississippi ...