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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... San Antonio among his countrymen . He offered us coffee , and said he had had beer , but on Christmas - day a mass of people called on him ; he had " treated " them all , and they had finished his supply . We inquired at seven stores ...
... San Antonio road , and came out upon large open prairies with long and heavy skirts of timber , and this description applies to the whole region as far as the Colorado , the prairies , as you proceed westward , growing more and more ...
... San Antonio , beyond which the dwarf mesquit and its congeners are found . The live- oak is almost the only tree away from the river bottoms , and everywhere gives the marked features to the landscape . The live - oaks are often short ...
... San Antonio . In passing through the thin wood upon the banks of a branch we started a covey of quails , and hitching Fanny , I went after broiled birds for supper . Mr. Brown was not much disposed to go on without the mare , and F. was ...
... San Antonio . At Bastrop . at a watchmaker's shop , I had seen , with 132 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS .