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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... crop was everywhere Indian 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 ...
... crop was everywhere Indian 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 ...
Strana 20
... crop , though one farm had this year yielded thirty bushels without unusual pains . On the train we found acquaintances , and had much animated conversation and advice upon our plans of travel . We could not help observing that the ...
... crop , though one farm had this year yielded thirty bushels without unusual pains . On the train we found acquaintances , and had much animated conversation and advice upon our plans of travel . We could not help observing that the ...
Strana 51
... crop was larger still . The expenses of the family ( not very heavy , if our dinner was an in- dication ) and of the negroes would probably be defrayed by the swine and corn crop , and the profits should have been , in two years , full ...
... crop was larger still . The expenses of the family ( not very heavy , if our dinner was an in- dication ) and of the negroes would probably be defrayed by the swine and corn crop , and the profits should have been , in two years , full ...
Strana 52
... crop , and so use up several years ' profits . A slate hung in the piazza , with the names of all the cotton- pickers , and the quantity picked the last picking day by each , thus : Gorge , 152 ; David , 130 ; Polly , 98 ; Hanna , 96 ...
... crop , and so use up several years ' profits . A slate hung in the piazza , with the names of all the cotton- pickers , and the quantity picked the last picking day by each , thus : Gorge , 152 ; David , 130 ; Polly , 98 ; Hanna , 96 ...
Strana 56
... making a remark on the crops by the roadside ; but , generally , dogged , surly , and silent . The women are silent , too , frequently walking , to relieve the teams , and weary , haggard , mud be - draggled , 56 TEXAS . A JOURNEY THROUGH.
... making a remark on the crops by the roadside ; but , generally , dogged , surly , and silent . The women are silent , too , frequently walking , to relieve the teams , and weary , haggard , mud be - draggled , 56 TEXAS . A JOURNEY THROUGH.
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