A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier, with a Statistical AppendixBrookhaven Press, 1859 - Počet stran: 516 |
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Strana 47
... Mexican saddle with immense wooden stirrups . The house had but one door and no window , nor was there a pane of glass on the plantation . Entering the house , we found it to contain but a single room , about twenty feet by sixteen . Of ...
... Mexican saddle with immense wooden stirrups . The house had but one door and no window , nor was there a pane of glass on the plantation . Entering the house , we found it to contain but a single room , about twenty feet by sixteen . Of ...
Strana 53
... Mexican fashion , were hung with blankets , overcoats , am- munition - pouches , lunch - bags , et cetera . Once astride in all this lumber it was no small game that was inducement to dismount , and as to a free trot or a canter , with ...
... Mexican fashion , were hung with blankets , overcoats , am- munition - pouches , lunch - bags , et cetera . Once astride in all this lumber it was no small game that was inducement to dismount , and as to a free trot or a canter , with ...
Strana 54
... Mexican saddles , but the Texan , a cross of the two , is far the best for the purpose . As used in Texas , it is frequently an open tree , with no covering whatever , two wooden pads lying flat upon the muscles of the back , and ...
... Mexican saddles , but the Texan , a cross of the two , is far the best for the purpose . As used in Texas , it is frequently an open tree , with no covering whatever , two wooden pads lying flat upon the muscles of the back , and ...
Strana 70
... Mexican habitations of which San Augustine was once composed , have all disappeared . We could not find even a trace of them . At San Augustine we rejoined our friend B. , who had , in fact , arrived but a few minutes before us . He had ...
... Mexican habitations of which San Augustine was once composed , have all disappeared . We could not find even a trace of them . At San Augustine we rejoined our friend B. , who had , in fact , arrived but a few minutes before us . He had ...
Strana 71
... Mexican muleteer to put it on , was the only contrivance that could be ever used for packing . Our affair , even if it did not topple over at the first step , would cut the mule to the bone in ten miles slow walk ! During our few days ...
... Mexican muleteer to put it on , was the only contrivance that could be ever used for packing . Our affair , even if it did not topple over at the first step , would cut the mule to the bone in ten miles slow walk ! During our few days ...
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