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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... camp for a manger , when corn is to be had , and for a wrap at night . Before and behind are long deer - skin thongs , far better than straps and buckles . An extra blanket hangs by these , swinging loose like a saddle - cloth . With a ...
... camp for a manger , when corn is to be had , and for a wrap at night . Before and behind are long deer - skin thongs , far better than straps and buckles . An extra blanket hangs by these , swinging loose like a saddle - cloth . With a ...
Strana 75
... camp travel , not once did a ball fail to answer the finger . Nothing got out of order , nothing required care ; not once , though carried at random , in coat - pocket or belt , or tied thump- ing at the pummel , was there an accidental ...
... camp travel , not once did a ball fail to answer the finger . Nothing got out of order , nothing required care ; not once , though carried at random , in coat - pocket or belt , or tied thump- ing at the pummel , was there an accidental ...
Strana 80
... camp - life , which we were determined to begin at once . At night we reached a creek ( streamlet ) among the pines , five miles beyond Nacogdoches , and there made our first camp . Pitching our tent in the deepening twilight , at a ...
... camp - life , which we were determined to begin at once . At night we reached a creek ( streamlet ) among the pines , five miles beyond Nacogdoches , and there made our first camp . Pitching our tent in the deepening twilight , at a ...
Strana 81
... CAMP DIET . We camped some twenty - five miles from Nacogdoches ( Che- rokee Co. ) . Finding nothing else , after foraging the neighbor- hood , than a few small and watery sweet - potatoes , we had recourse to our own stores , and made ...
... CAMP DIET . We camped some twenty - five miles from Nacogdoches ( Che- rokee Co. ) . Finding nothing else , after foraging the neighbor- hood , than a few small and watery sweet - potatoes , we had recourse to our own stores , and made ...
Strana 83
... CAMP . - ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES . The second day's camp was a few miles beyond the town of Crockett - the shire - town of Houston County . Not being able to find corn for our horses , we returned to the village for it . We obtained what ...
... CAMP . - ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES . The second day's camp was a few miles beyond the town of Crockett - the shire - town of Houston County . Not being able to find corn for our horses , we returned to the village for it . We obtained what ...
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