Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on RecordDavis Wasgatt Clark A. Poe & L. Hitchcock, 1864 - 416 sider |
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... party . On the 28th of April , at ten o'clock in the morning , all things being prepared , the caravan , consisting of seventy men and two hundred and fifty horses , began its march toward the west . All were in high spirits , and full ...
... party . On the 28th of April , at ten o'clock in the morning , all things being prepared , the caravan , consisting of seventy men and two hundred and fifty horses , began its march toward the west . All were in high spirits , and full ...
Side 18
... party crossed a broad , Indian trail , bearing northerly , supposed to be about five days old , and to have been made by a war - party of Pawnees . Hoping to escape these formidable enemies of the white man , the party pushed on , but ...
... party crossed a broad , Indian trail , bearing northerly , supposed to be about five days old , and to have been made by a war - party of Pawnees . Hoping to escape these formidable enemies of the white man , the party pushed on , but ...
Side 20
... party grumbled a little at the unfriendly conduct of the rival caravan in stealing a march upon them ; but consoled them- selves by making the reflection , that competition is the soul of commerce , and that , in the same circumstances ...
... party grumbled a little at the unfriendly conduct of the rival caravan in stealing a march upon them ; but consoled them- selves by making the reflection , that competition is the soul of commerce , and that , in the same circumstances ...
Side 23
... party reached the Platte 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 ...
... party reached the Platte 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 ...
Side 24
... party were alarmed with the ap- pearance of two men on horseback , hovering on their path at a great distance . On looking at them with a telescope , they were discovered to be Indians , and on their approach it was found they belonged ...
... party were alarmed with the ap- pearance of two men on horseback , hovering on their path at a great distance . On looking at them with a telescope , they were discovered to be Indians , and on their approach it was found they belonged ...
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