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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... corn - bread that made for most of the passengers the substantials of that meal ; the open kitchen in the back- ground , and the unstudied equality of black and white that visibly reigned there : nothing of this was now a surprise ...
... corn - bread that made for most of the passengers the substantials of that meal ; the open kitchen in the back- ground , and the unstudied equality of black and white that visibly reigned there : nothing of this was now a surprise ...
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... corn , which furnishes the food for man and beast , and the cash sales evidently of hogs and beef . Many of the farms had been a great while under cultivation . Large old orchards were frequent , now loaded with apples left 14 TEXAS . A ...
... corn , which furnishes the food for man and beast , and the cash sales evidently of hogs and beef . Many of the farms had been a great while under cultivation . Large old orchards were frequent , now loaded with apples left 14 TEXAS . A ...
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... CORN - BREAD BEGINS . - THE ROADSIDE . We stopped for dinner at a small and unattractive village , and at an inn to which scarcely better terms could be applied . The meal was smoking on the table ; but five minutes had hardly elapsed ...
... CORN - BREAD BEGINS . - THE ROADSIDE . We stopped for dinner at a small and unattractive village , and at an inn to which scarcely better terms could be applied . The meal was smoking on the table ; but five minutes had hardly elapsed ...
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... corn into a central heap , with jokes and good cheer ; near by , a group of idle boys looking on from a fence , and half - a - dozen horses tied around . The whole a pic- turesque study , which , with the knowing crow added , I would ...
... corn into a central heap , with jokes and good cheer ; near by , a group of idle boys looking on from a fence , and half - a - dozen horses tied around . The whole a pic- turesque study , which , with the knowing crow added , I would ...
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... corn for sixty years , without interruption , and without manure . Its produce was still forty bushels to the acre , with meagre care Of wheat , fifteen bushels was an average crop , though one farm had this year yielded thirty bushels ...
... corn for sixty years , without interruption , and without manure . Its produce was still forty bushels to the acre , with meagre care Of wheat , fifteen bushels was an average crop , though one farm had this year yielded thirty bushels ...
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