A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and Those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System, Volume 4Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915 |
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Pagina 1154
... o'clock in the morning and whenever he shot any desired animal he hung it up in some conspicuous tree close to a bank of the river . When the boat finally started a sentry was placed on the upper deck whose sole responsibility was to ...
... o'clock in the morning and whenever he shot any desired animal he hung it up in some conspicuous tree close to a bank of the river . When the boat finally started a sentry was placed on the upper deck whose sole responsibility was to ...
Pagina 1157
... o'clock . But in the morning , just as the boat was getting under way again , rifle shots were fired across her bow and an army officer came on board with information that his captain would later arrive to inspect the vessel . Audubon ...
... o'clock . But in the morning , just as the boat was getting under way again , rifle shots were fired across her bow and an army officer came on board with information that his captain would later arrive to inspect the vessel . Audubon ...
Pagina 1209
... o'clock A. M .; the sentinels on duty have discharged their rifles the signal that the hours of sleep are over - and every wagon and tent is pouring forth its night tenants , and slow kindling . smokes begin largely to rise and float ...
... o'clock A. M .; the sentinels on duty have discharged their rifles the signal that the hours of sleep are over - and every wagon and tent is pouring forth its night tenants , and slow kindling . smokes begin largely to rise and float ...
Pagina 1210
... o'clock is a busy time ; breakfast is to be eaten , the tents struck , the wagons loaded and the teams yoked and brought up in readiness to be attached to their respective wagons . All know when , at seven o'clock , the signal to march ...
... o'clock is a busy time ; breakfast is to be eaten , the tents struck , the wagons loaded and the teams yoked and brought up in readiness to be attached to their respective wagons . All know when , at seven o'clock , the signal to march ...
Pagina 1211
... o'clock , the bugle has sounded and the caravan has resumed its westward journey . It is in the same order , but the even- ing is far less animated than the morning march . A drowsiness has 1 This widely adopted effort of the western ...
... o'clock , the bugle has sounded and the caravan has resumed its westward journey . It is in the same order , but the even- ing is far less animated than the morning march . A drowsiness has 1 This widely adopted effort of the western ...
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A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the ..., Volume 4 Seymour Dunbar Volledige weergave - 1915 |
A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the ..., Volume 4 Seymour Dunbar Volledige weergave - 1915 |
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Pagina 1207 - ... travel of the wagons. Today, the ground being favorable, little time has been lost in preparing the road, so that he and his pioneers are at the nooning place an hour in advance of the wagons, which time is spent in preparing convenient watering places for the animals and digging little wells near the bank of the Platte. As the teams are not unyoked, but simply turned loose from the wagons, a corral is not formed at noon, but the wagons are drawn up in columns, four abreast, the leading wagon...
Pagina 1206 - ... corral to be yoked. The corral is a circle one hundred yards deep, formed with wagons connected strongly with each other ; the wagon in the rear being connected with the wagon in front by its tongue and ox chains. It is a strong barrier that the most vicious ox cannot break, and in case of an attack of the Sioux would be no contemptible intrenchment.
Pagina 1220 - We, the people of Oregon Territory, for purposes of mutual protection, and to secure peace and prosperity among ourselves, agree to adopt the following laws and regulations until such time as the United States of America extend their jurisdiction over us.
Pagina 1260 - In some of these, the fever prevailed to such an extent that hardly any escaped it. They let their cows go unmilked ; they wanted for voices to raise the psalm of Sundays ; the few who were able to keep their feet, went about among the tents and wagons with food and water, like nurses through the wards of an infirmary. Here, at one time, the digging got behind hand ; burials were slow ; and you might see women sit in the open tents keeping the flies off their dead children, some time after decomposition...
Pagina 1206 - All know when, at seven o'clock, the signal to march sounds, that those not ready to take their proper places in the line of march must fall into the dusty rear for the day.
Pagina 1317 - Albany; and probably the time may not be far distant when trips will be made across the continent as they have been made to the Niagara Falls, to see Nature's wonders.
Pagina 1297 - An armed escort travels through the Indian country with each mail train, for the protection of the mails and passengers. "Passengers are provided with provisions during the trip except where the Coach stops at Public Houses along the Line, at which each Passenger will pay for his own meal.
Pagina 1206 - It is within ten minutes of seven; the corral, but now a strong barricade, is everywhere broken, the teams being attached to the wagons. The women and children have taken their places in them. The pilot (a borderer who has passed his life on the verge of civilization and has been chosen to the post of leader from his knowledge of the savage and his experience in travel through roadless wastes) stands ready in the midst of his pioneers and aids to mount and lead the way.
Pagina 1253 - I heard the flies buzz and the water-ripples break against the shallow of the beach. I walked through the solitary streets. The town lay as in a dream, under some deadening spell of loneliness, from which I almost feared to wake it. For plainly it had not slept long. There was no grass growing up in the paved ways. Rains had not entirely washed away the prints of dusty footsteps. Yet I went about unchecked. I went into empty workshops, ropewalks and smithies. The spinner's wheel was idle ; the carpenter...
Pagina 1254 - This was the place of exercise for slowly recovering invalids, the day-home of the infants, and the evening promenade of all. " From the first formation of the camp, all its inhabitants were constantly and laboriously occupied. Many of them were highly educated mechanics, and seemed only to need a day's anticipated rest to engage them at the forge, loom, or turning lathe, upon some needed chore of work.