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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... stopping place . 66 CASH CLAY , " FROM THE KENTUCKY POINT OF VIEW . On the box with us were two Kentuckians , bound homewards- a farmer and a store - keeper , from the central part of the State . Many of the hogs , they told us , from ...
... stopped for dinner at a small and unattractive village , and at an inn to which scarcely better terms could be applied . The meal was smoking on the table ; but five minutes had hardly elapsed , when " Stage's ready , " was shouted ...
... stopping - places was a tame crow , hopping about in the most familiar way among 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 ...
... stopped here , with rapids , the regular use of the river . Cincinnati , by the canal around them , has , however , almost free competition with it , and it has well stood its ground , showing some other than a temporary necessity for ...
... stopping to wood - up , become excitements that make you spring from your berth or your book . Two sounds remain still very vividly in my ears in thinking of this sail - the unceasing " Choosh , choosh ; choosh , choosh , " of the steam ...