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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... crossed it in 1835 , thus describes it : " For about twenty - five miles since we crossed the Elk- horn , and between this river and the Platte , which are about ten miles apart , there is not a single hill . It is rich bottom land ...
... crossed it in 1835 , thus describes it : " For about twenty - five miles since we crossed the Elk- horn , and between this river and the Platte , which are about ten miles apart , there is not a single hill . It is rich bottom land ...
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... crossing the head waters of the Platte and the various forks of the Kanzas , leads to the Pueblo , on the Arkansas , and to Bent's Fort . This trail opens to observation a country mostly barren , like the plains below , sometimes broken ...
... crossing the head waters of the Platte and the various forks of the Kanzas , leads to the Pueblo , on the Arkansas , and to Bent's Fort . This trail opens to observation a country mostly barren , like the plains below , sometimes broken ...
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... crossed to the usual emigrant trail in the valley of the Nebraska river . " From the belt of wood which borders the Kanzas , in which we had passed several good - looking Indian farms , we suddenly emerged on the prairies , which ...
... crossed to the usual emigrant trail in the valley of the Nebraska river . " From the belt of wood which borders the Kanzas , in which we had passed several good - looking Indian farms , we suddenly emerged on the prairies , which ...
Seite 91
... crossing . I had expected to find the river fordable , but it had been swollen by the late rains , and was sweeping by with an angry current , yellow and turbid as the Missouri . Up to this point the road we had travelled was a remark ...
... crossing . I had expected to find the river fordable , but it had been swollen by the late rains , and was sweeping by with an angry current , yellow and turbid as the Missouri . Up to this point the road we had travelled was a remark ...
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... they flourished abundantly . We crossed , at ten A. M. , the Big Vermilion , which has a rich bottom of about one mile in breadth , one - third of which is ( ( THE DIVIDE . " 93 occupied by timber 92 KANZAS AND NEBRASKA .
... they flourished abundantly . We crossed , at ten A. M. , the Big Vermilion , which has a rich bottom of about one mile in breadth , one - third of which is ( ( THE DIVIDE . " 93 occupied by timber 92 KANZAS AND NEBRASKA .
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