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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... and glimpses . The price of land for such places , within thirty or forty minutes ' drive of town , was , I was told , $ 1,000 per acre ; and , of all eli- gible land , within ten miles around , $ 200 8 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS .
... told us , among other things , that he had once driven over the road , eighty- four miles , during a high opposition , in seven hours , including all stops . This route is now done by railway , with great gain , no doubt , but also with ...
... told us , from the brand , belonged to Mr. Clay - Cassius - who buys them of farmers , and has them driven to market . He had made , they understood , $ 40,000 the previous year , in this business . " Well , he'll lose money this time ...
... told of a " baär - fight , " apropos of a chained cub we 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 ...
... told , * Woodland pastures : a blue 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 ...