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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... passed without rebuke ; apparently with entire public and offi- cial indifference . It was looked upon as one of the necessary and pardonable occurrences of a frontier . Would this have been the case , if it had happened on the ...
... passed , are agreeable enough , even at this season , to be called charming - tasteful houses , standing on natural lawns among natural park - groups of oak , with river views and glimpses . The price of land for such places , within ...
... 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 day . The bad ( warm ) weather was a subject of commiseration at every stopping place . 66 CASH CLAY , " FROM ...
... passed on the road . " By Godfrey , " to his companion , " you ought not to have missed that . " The hero of the tale , was a sorry cur of his own , who till that day had been looked upon as a spiritless thing of no account , but whose ...