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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... whole day's swift panorama , so charmingly varied is the surface , and so perfect each new point of view . Midway of the route , the land is high and rougher in tone , and the richest beauty is only reached at the close of the day ...
... whole day's swift panorama , so charmingly varied is the surface , and so perfect each new point of view . Midway of the route , the land is high and rougher in tone , and the richest beauty is only reached at the close of the day ...
Strana 12
... to talk to other folks . " " He's a whole man , if there ever was one . I don't like an abolitionist , but by God I do like a man 12 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS . their obstinate way towards Cincinnati and a market. Many ...
... to talk to other folks . " " He's a whole man , if there ever was one . I don't like an abolitionist , but by God I do like a man 12 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS . their obstinate way towards Cincinnati and a market. Many ...
Strana 13
... whole family , including twenty black people , were laid up with erysipelas the previous year , and he had lost one of his best boys . Since then he had had dyspepsia horridly . " He wouldn't begrudge the likeliest nigger he had got to ...
... whole family , including twenty black people , were laid up with erysipelas the previous year , and he had lost one of his best boys . Since then he had had dyspepsia horridly . " He wouldn't begrudge the likeliest nigger he had got to ...
Strana 16
... whole a pic- turesque study , which , with the knowing crow added , I would like to have preserved on a better medium than one of the fading tablets of memory . Saddles , it was easy to observe , were very much more used here than at ...
... whole a pic- turesque study , which , with the knowing crow added , I would like to have preserved on a better medium than one of the fading tablets of memory . Saddles , it was easy to observe , were very much more used here than at ...
Strana 17
... whole bearing the look of a calm and tasteful retreat . What a contrast life here , with the clash and passion , the unceasing and exciting labor of the capitol ! As we left , we met Mr. James Clay , once chargé to Portugal , who ...
... whole bearing the look of a calm and tasteful retreat . What a contrast life here , with the clash and passion , the unceasing and exciting labor of the capitol ! As we left , we met Mr. James Clay , once chargé to Portugal , who ...
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