Overland Monthly and Out West MagazineA. Roman and Company, 1887 |
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Page 15
... rest . As we neared the spot where we hoped to find water , the aspect of the coun- try seemed to grow even more forbidding . " The dry season has swallowed it , ' said the servant dejectedly , after a careful survey of the locality ...
... rest . As we neared the spot where we hoped to find water , the aspect of the coun- try seemed to grow even more forbidding . " The dry season has swallowed it , ' said the servant dejectedly , after a careful survey of the locality ...
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... rest , I invariably received the answer that it was hard to tell . A careful reading of the succeeding pages may possibly render the solution of the prob- lem self - evident . The first white settlement in the valley dates from June ...
... rest , I invariably received the answer that it was hard to tell . A careful reading of the succeeding pages may possibly render the solution of the prob- lem self - evident . The first white settlement in the valley dates from June ...
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... rest ...... I have not heard that any reason was assigned for the massacre , but have understood that it was a sort of New Year's frolic . " In another case some twenty Indians on the Reservation were shot upon suspicion of having ...
... rest ...... I have not heard that any reason was assigned for the massacre , but have understood that it was a sort of New Year's frolic . " In another case some twenty Indians on the Reservation were shot upon suspicion of having ...
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... rest . " I waited until the laughter that greeted this story - which was a pure canard-— partly ceased ; and then I said that I had not taken a fisher for a bear - cub , but , that I had that day mistaken an old bear for a black stump ...
... rest . " I waited until the laughter that greeted this story - which was a pure canard-— partly ceased ; and then I said that I had not taken a fisher for a bear - cub , but , that I had that day mistaken an old bear for a black stump ...
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... rest , on a little bluff that overlooked a patch of chem- isal . I had looked the brush over care- fully , as I thought , and had noticed nothing peculiar , until , on looking a moment later , I saw in it what I took for a burnt stump ...
... rest , on a little bluff that overlooked a patch of chem- isal . I had looked the brush over care- fully , as I thought , and had noticed nothing peculiar , until , on looking a moment later , I saw in it what I took for a burnt stump ...
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