 | Arthur R. Kruckeberg - 1995 - 468 pagina’s
...overhung the margins of the stream, unmolested by the axe or the settler; when I know how dearly purchased the safe navigation of that river has been, by the...are to be found there, and that the vast herds of Elk, Deer, and Buffaloes which once pastured on these hills, and in these valleys, making for themselves... | |
 | Mark David Spence - 1999 - 200 pagina’s
...Just as poignantly, he lamented that there were "no longer any Aborigines ... to be found there, [nor] the vast herds of elks, deer and buffaloes which once pastured on these hills and in these valleys." In short, it was a horrible tragedy that "this grand portion of [the] Union" had not been left "in... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831
...the margins of the stream, unmolested by the axe of the settler ; when I know how dearly purchased the safe navigation of that river has been by the...aborigines are to be found there, and that the vast nerds of elks, deer, and buffaloes which once pastured on these hills and in these valleys, making... | |
 | JOHN C. VAN TRAMP. - 1870
...the margins of the stream, unmolested by the axe of the settler ; when I know how dearly purchased the safe navigation of that river has been by the blood of many worthy men ; when I see that no longer any aborigines are to be found there, and that the vast herds of elks,... | |
 | 1840
...along, gazing all day on the grandeur, and beauty of the wild scenery around us. and that the vast herd of elks, deer and buffaloes which once pastured on these hills and these vallies, making for themselves great roads to the severe! salt springs, have ceased to exist;... | |
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I picture to myself the dense and lofty summits of the forests, that everywhere spread along the hills and overhung the margins of the stream, unmolested by the axe of the settler; when I know how dearly purchased the safe navigation of that river has... 
