Kanzas and Nebraska: The History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics, and Political Position of These Terretories : an Account of the Emigrant Aid Companies, and Directions to EmigrantsPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 256 Seiten |
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... wide range before me . I have followed up , as carefully as I could , the memoirs of the early French travellers who first opened to the civil- ized world the valley of the Missouri . Of more use , in the view in which that valley is ...
... wide range before me . I have followed up , as carefully as I could , the memoirs of the early French travellers who first opened to the civil- ized world the valley of the Missouri . Of more use , in the view in which that valley is ...
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... wide . At the Great Falls they found it , in dif- ferent places , three hundred and four hundred yards wide , and occasionally expanding to a much greater breadth . Two or three hundred miles above the falls , by the river , its width ...
... wide . At the Great Falls they found it , in dif- ferent places , three hundred and four hundred yards wide , and occasionally expanding to a much greater breadth . Two or three hundred miles above the falls , by the river , its width ...
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... wide , through this prairie region . It over- flows the whole of this bed at the highest water , and leaves on the meadows the deepest and richest alluvial soil , through which winds the singularly circuitous current of the river . The ...
... wide , through this prairie region . It over- flows the whole of this bed at the highest water , and leaves on the meadows the deepest and richest alluvial soil , through which winds the singularly circuitous current of the river . The ...
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... wide , with a deep channel ; the Yel- lowstone , near three hundred . The space between the rivers is well wooded , and rises , in a series of plains , quite above the inundations of the stream , and extending back - several miles to ...
... wide , with a deep channel ; the Yel- lowstone , near three hundred . The space between the rivers is well wooded , and rises , in a series of plains , quite above the inundations of the stream , and extending back - several miles to ...
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... wide . " Freestone and limestone boulders of large size are found on the " divide " between the Kanzas and Nebraska . In the bluffs of the Missouri , brick clay is found , and there seems no lack of stone for building purposes . The ...
... wide . " Freestone and limestone boulders of large size are found on the " divide " between the Kanzas and Nebraska . In the bluffs of the Missouri , brick clay is found , and there seems no lack of stone for building purposes . The ...
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