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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... took us deep into the pines . Natchitoches , and with it all the tumult and bother of social civilization , had disappeared . Under the pines and beyond them was a new , calm , free life , upon which we entered with a glow 54 A JOURNEY ...
... per cent . over those of New Orleans . We took our pork and corn - bread , at noon , in the house of an old gentleman of a pious fox - hunting turn . 62 TEXAS . A JOURNEY THROUGH bread, if I am not mistaken, we met ...
... took sides upon the subject so earnestly , that , one fine day , the president of the Presbyterian University was shot down in the street . After this , both dwindled , and seeing death by starv- ation staring them in the face , they ...
... took his place in the cara- 66 van . A chestnut mare was the last acquisition - a lithe , shapely thing , with a keen volatile eye , a fine ear , and open nostril . I found no friendship in her face , nor did she ever yield to the last ...
... eyes all our proceedings . Fanny , the mare , took naturally the lead , followed by B. lead- ing the mule by his halter , and Nack brought up the rear . The mule , however , soon found the halter an annoyance ROUTE ACROSS EASTERN TEXAS .