Recollections of a California PioneerNeale Publishing Company, 1917 - 235 páginas |
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Agnes ahead Apache asked band of horses belt brother Alvin brush Camp Cramer canyon Carson River cattle CHAPTER Clark crossed desert doctor dollars Dragoon Mountains dust Eagle City feet high feet long feet wide fifty fire flour foot Fort Thomas four feet Fuche gold grass ground head horses Humboldt River hundred feet inches Indians Johnson killed looking lunch mento miners mines Missouri morning mountain night o'clock old Pomp Old Sol partners passed Pawnee pistol plain Platte reached Redington replied rifle road rock rope Salinas Valley San Carlos San Carlos River sand Schang side sight soon Spring Valley started stopped stream sundown teams tent timber tion told Tomales Bay Tombstone took trail train trip tunnel turned twenty feet Uncle Ben wagon whereupon Whetstone Mountains Yankee Slide yards
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Página 114 - Majesty appeared just above the curtain, and by means of some wire attachment he was made to move his lips and chin as in talking. He made quite a speech, saying, among other things, that in this wild region where there were no infernal laws to bother, no society, no ladies, and no churches to...