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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... 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 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 - 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 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 . - 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 ...