History And Travels Of A Wanderer In Many States And Places Of Interest In This Fair Land Of Ours

Amanda E. Miller Bates

ISBN 10: 0548456909 / ISBN 13: 9780548456903

Edité par Kessinger Publishing, LLC Sep 2007, 2007

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• Titre: History And Travels Of A Wanderer In Many States And Places Of Interest In This Fair Land Of Ours
• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing, LLC Sep 2007
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0548456909
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780548456903
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 8 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 8 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 215 grammes

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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She had sailed on a steamer from New York harbor by way of Cape Horn. My other aunt went to California in 1849, over the plains in wagon. I was soon in the Humbolt region. I saw where the river rose from springs, rode by the river for miles, then saw where it sinks into the earth. This place is called the Sink of the Humbolt. Near it are the Humbolt Mountains. At this sink many weary emigrants have labored hard and long to get through. It is a mire. I wondered how my aunt Nancy Jackson had traversed the plain with two small children, to her home in the far West. She made this journey before my birth. She reached California in Novem ber, 1849. My uncle Ben Jackson, a cousin of Stonewall is captain of the California Pioneers or 49ers as they are called. They lived in Peoria county, I llinois. I saw the Maidens Grave, high on the mountain top, it seemed inaccessible to man or beast. The grave is marked with a wooden cross and is a landmark. The old emigrant road is in sight of the railroad for many miles. There are many things to interest the traveler enroute to California. I passed Julesburg, where so many emigrants had been murdered by I ndians, I mailed my second postal card to my mother at this place. One town I passed was a Prairie dog town. I saw hundreds of their dwellings. Their companions were owls and rattlesnakes. At the least noise these little dogs scamper about and run into thefr holes, head first while their tails stick out in open air. When one shoots at them, it is very hard, to hit them, they are so quick. Next I saw many Mormon settlements. I decided to visit the great city of Salt Lake on my way home. I saw where the Moun tain Meadow Massacre occurred, Indians were led on to do the bloody work by designing white men, Mormons by their religious creed.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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