Francis Parkman's The Oregon TrailLongmans, Green, and Company, 1910 - 363 páginas |
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... light , we left behind us the farthest outskirts of that great forest that once spread unbroken from the western plains to the shore of the Atlantic . Looking over an intervening belt of shrubbery , we saw the green , ocean - like ...
... light , we left behind us the farthest outskirts of that great forest that once spread unbroken from the western plains to the shore of the Atlantic . Looking over an intervening belt of shrubbery , we saw the green , ocean - like ...
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... light from a distant swell of the prairie , where the long dry grass of last summer was on fire . CHAPTER III FORT LEAVENWORTH " I've wandered wide and wandered far , But never have I met , In all this lovely western land , A spot more ...
... light from a distant swell of the prairie , where the long dry grass of last summer was on fire . CHAPTER III FORT LEAVENWORTH " I've wandered wide and wandered far , But never have I met , In all this lovely western land , A spot more ...
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... light ; when , opening our blankets , we found several dozen clinging there with the utmost tenacity . The first object that met our eyes in the morning was Delorier , who seemed to be apostrophizing his frying - pan , which he held by ...
... light ; when , opening our blankets , we found several dozen clinging there with the utmost tenacity . The first object that met our eyes in the morning was Delorier , who seemed to be apostrophizing his frying - pan , which he held by ...
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... light peaceful showers succeeded the cataracts of rain that had been drenching us through the canvas of our tents . About noon , when there were some treacherous indica- tions of fair weather , we got in motion again . Not a breath of ...
... light peaceful showers succeeded the cataracts of rain that had been drenching us through the canvas of our tents . About noon , when there were some treacherous indica- tions of fair weather , we got in motion again . Not a breath of ...
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... light of the fire , lest perchance some keen - eyed skulking marksman should let fly a bullet or an arrow from amid the darkness . Among various tales that circulated around our camp- fire was a rather curious one , told by Boisverd ...
... light of the fire , lest perchance some keen - eyed skulking marksman should let fly a bullet or an arrow from amid the darkness . Among various tales that circulated around our camp- fire was a rather curious one , told by Boisverd ...
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American Fur Company animals antelope approached Arapahoes band of horses bank began Bent's Fort Black Hills broken buffalo buffalo-robes bull bushes camp Captain close crowd Dahcotah dark Delorier distance Edited emigrants encamped enemy eyes face farther fire followed foot Fort Laramie Fort Leavenworth forward galloped grass grizzly bear ground half hand head Henry Chatillon horses hour hunter Indians Jean Gras journey killed length lodge looked meadow meat ment miles Missouri morning mountains mounted mule night Ogillallah Oregon Trail Parkman party passed Pawnees pipe plain Platte prairie ravine Raymond reached rest Reynal riding rifle river rocks Rocky Rocky Mountains rode rose saddle Santa Fé scene seated seemed Shaw side sight smoke soon squaw stood stream tall tent Tête Rouge tion traders trappers trees turned village wagons warriors whole wild wolves woods young
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Página 34 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 144 - That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 271 - Every line save one of this description was more than verified here. There were no 'dwellings of the mountaineer' among these heights. Fierce savages, restlessly wandering through summer and winter, alone invade them. 'Their hand is against every man, and every man's hand against them.
Página 253 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 12 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Página 106 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 9 - ... an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire of shaking off restraints of law and society, or mere restlessness, certain it is, that multitudes bitterly repent the journey, and, after they have reached the land of promise, are happy enough to escape from it.
Página 283 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 214 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense...
Página vi - He told the red man's story ; far and wide He searched the unwritten records of his race ; He sat a listener at the Sachem's side, He tracked the hunter through his wildwood chase. High o'er his head the soaring eagle screamed; The wolf's long howl rang nightly ; through the vale Tramped the lone bear ; the panther's eyeballs gleamed ; The bison's gallop thundered on the gale.