Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on RecordDavis Wasgatt Clark Swormstedt & Poe, 1856 - 416 sider |
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... river and adjacent parts . The traders belonged to an association called the Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company , and on this occasion they designed to fix a permanent branch - establishment in the west . On the evening of the ...
... river and adjacent parts . The traders belonged to an association called the Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company , and on this occasion they designed to fix a permanent branch - establishment in the west . On the evening of the ...
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... river at the rate of seven miles an hour . In four days they reached the small town of Independence , then the out- ermost Anglo - American post , and disembarking , they began to prepare for their long and ven- turesome journey . Mr ...
... river at the rate of seven miles an hour . In four days they reached the small town of Independence , then the out- ermost Anglo - American post , and disembarking , they began to prepare for their long and ven- turesome journey . Mr ...
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... river - just a short distance beyond us here - I fell in with about a dozen Ottos . They were known to be a friendly tribe , and I therefore felt no fear of them . I dis- mounted from my horse , and sat with them on EXCURSION TO OREGON .
... river - just a short distance beyond us here - I fell in with about a dozen Ottos . They were known to be a friendly tribe , and I therefore felt no fear of them . I dis- mounted from my horse , and sat with them on EXCURSION TO OREGON .
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... river was frozen solid . While I was thinking of nothing but my dinner , which I was then about preparing , four or five of the cowards jumped on me , mastered my rifle , and held my arms fast , while they took from me my knife and ...
... river was frozen solid . While I was thinking of nothing but my dinner , which I was then about preparing , four or five of the cowards jumped on me , mastered my rifle , and held my arms fast , while they took from me my knife and ...
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... river , one of the streams which pour their waters into the Missouri . Wolves and antelopes were abundant in the neighborhood of the river , and herons and long - billed curlews were stalking about in the shallows , searching for food ...
... river , one of the streams which pour their waters into the Missouri . Wolves and antelopes were abundant in the neighborhood of the river , and herons and long - billed curlews were stalking about in the shallows , searching for food ...
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