Rambles in the Rocky Mountains: With a Visit to the Gold Fields of ColoradoSmith, Elder, 1864 - 264 Seiten Morris's journal takes the reader from St. Louis to the Colorado Rockies in the summer of 1863. He had intended to travel by steamer up the Missouri to Fort Benton and the Montana gold fields. The boat broke down at St. Joseph, however the author changed his destination to Denver, where he spent several months before returning to the Atlantic states (Wagner-Camp 404). The author identifies himself on the title page as the "Late Deputy Postmaster-General of Jamaica". His other books include a tour of Portugal and several accounts on field sports in Ireland. |
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... present condition of affairs , or vaticinations of gloom which political charlatans on both sides of the Atlantic are daily pouring forth . The facts are melancholy enough , God knows , without forestalling the woes to come , or ...
... present condition of affairs , or vaticinations of gloom which political charlatans on both sides of the Atlantic are daily pouring forth . The facts are melancholy enough , God knows , without forestalling the woes to come , or ...
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... present no allurements to the settler . Once in Ohio , however , the scene changes . Rich fields of large dimensions , and mathe- matically square , generally clear of stumps , and enclosed with solid posts and rails , and shaded by ...
... present no allurements to the settler . Once in Ohio , however , the scene changes . Rich fields of large dimensions , and mathe- matically square , generally clear of stumps , and enclosed with solid posts and rails , and shaded by ...
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... present condition , I made up my mind to strike Westward , ho ! and negotiated with a teamster who is going to Denver City , Colorado , to transport self and the slight impedimenta necessary for the apparently moderate sum of thirty ...
... present condition , I made up my mind to strike Westward , ho ! and negotiated with a teamster who is going to Denver City , Colorado , to transport self and the slight impedimenta necessary for the apparently moderate sum of thirty ...
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... present tenures but for a short period ; and though one would conceive that the fact of having redeemed a farm from the sur- rounding wilderness would endear it greatly to the settler , such is not generally the case , or at least not ...
... present tenures but for a short period ; and though one would conceive that the fact of having redeemed a farm from the sur- rounding wilderness would endear it greatly to the settler , such is not generally the case , or at least not ...
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... present an elliptical instead of a rotund appearance : like the pictures of cherubs blowing a trumpet frantically , his cheeks seemed unnaturally distended . I suppose the solution is as simple as may be , but I " don't see it . " At ...
... present an elliptical instead of a rotund appearance : like the pictures of cherubs blowing a trumpet frantically , his cheeks seemed unnaturally distended . I suppose the solution is as simple as may be , but I " don't see it . " At ...
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Seite 78 - Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Seite 210 - No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Seite 119 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine...
Seite 211 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...
Seite 131 - ... and administer the rite of confirmation to the candidates who might present themselves. And so at three o'clock it came to pass that the parson told the sexton, and the sexton tolled the bell outside the theatre, and at half-past the service began—the curtain being raised. There, sitting in the conventional sofa of the stage, was my Lord Bishop, magnificent in his robes, and with him, of course, an assistant priest. A table placed on the stage, close to the footlights, represented the altar,...
Seite 131 - ... queenly, and the courtiers not very courtier-like, yet the play was, on the whole, very well put on the stage ; even the Prince of Denmark, if unlike Fechter's impersonation, was, I thought, really very well rendered. This was one surprise; but the next was far greater, when, on the following Sunday, I was invited to hear the Bishop of the diocese (I think) preach in the same building, and administer the rite of confirmation to the candidates who might present themselves. And so at three o'clock...
Seite 1 - To the West, to the west, to the laud of the free, Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil, And the poorest may rea]) of the fruits of the soil.
Seite 134 - Yet they are the real ornament of Central ; and is it not as a tribute to them that all these jewellery and finery shops are maintained ? Is it not owing to their influence that these rough places of the earth have been made to feel the power of refinement and civilization, and that the miner, instead of degenerating into a gnome or troglodyte, becomes a good citizen, imbued with all the charities of...
Seite 130 - Black Hawk " a very neat little wooden church meets the eye, with its gilt spire at the top — a symbol, I suppose, of the wealth it surveys, part of which has been so well directed.
Seite 261 - ... his horned stock and sheep will increase and multiply his capital invested in them in a marvellous way ; for green crops here are as unknown as unnecessary, and hay, which the prairie yields freely, is all the " wintering