Roughing it, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1913 - Authors, American |
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Arkansas Ballou began boat Book of Ether breakfast cabin camp Cañon Carson City CHAPTER climbed coach conductor Coriantumr coyote creature dead deep desert dollars driver Esmeralda eyes face feet four gave gold gone Goshoots half hands Hank Monk head heard Higbie Horace Greeley horse hostler hour Humboldt hundred and fifty hundred miles Indians Julesburg killed knew Lamanites land ledge look minutes Mono Lake Mormon morning mules Nephi Nevada Nevada Territory never night Ollendorff once Overland party pass plain quicksilver ranch rest road rock Rocky Mountains saddle sage-brush Salt Lake Salt Lake City sand seemed seen shaft Shiz shot silver silver-mines Slade sleep snow South Pass City stage station stood talk tarantulas tell territory thing thought thousand tion told took tree unto walked wanted Wide West
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Page 156 - We plodded on, two or three hours longer, and at last the lake burst upon us— a noble sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above the level of the sea, and walled in by a rim of snow-clad mountain peaks that towered aloft full three thousand feet higher still! It was a vast oval, and one would have to use up eighty or a hundred good miles in traveling around it.
Page 53 - There were about eighty pony-riders in the saddle all the time, night and day, stretching in a long, scattering procession from Missouri to California, forty flying eastward, and forty toward the west...
Page 140 - Placerville, and was very anxious to go through quick. Hank Monk cracked his whip and started off at an awful pace. The coach bounced up and down in such a terrific way that it jolted the buttons all off of Horace's coat, and finally shot his head clean through the roof of the stage, and then he yelled at Hank Monk and begged him to go easier—said he warn't in as much of a hurry as he was a while ago.
Page 116 - And it came to pass that on the morrow, when the multitude was gathered together, behold, Nephi and his brother whom he had raised from the dead, whose name was Timothy, and also his son, whose name was Jonas, and also Mathoni, and Mathonihah, his brother, and Kumen, and Kumenonhi, and Jeremiah, and Shemnon, and Jonas, and Zedekiah, and Isaiah; now these were the names of the disciples whom Jesus had chosen. In order that the reader may observe how much more grandeur and picturesqueness (as seen...
Page 17 - Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat...
Page 32 - The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede. He is so spiritless and cowardly that even while his exposed teeth are pretending a threat, the rest of his face is apologizing for it. And he is so homely! — so scrawny, and ribby, and coarse-haired, and pitiful. When he sees you he lifts his lip and lets a flash of his teeth out, and then turns a little out of the course he was pursuing, depresses his head a bit, and strikes a long, soft-footed trot through...
Page 112 - Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people unto whom this work shall come, that we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of the people of Jared, who came from the tower of which hath been spoken; and we also know that they have been translated by the gift and power of God, for his voice hath declared it unto us; wherefore...
Page 114 - Nephi was commanded from on high to build a ship wherein to "carry the people across the waters." He travestied Noah's ark — but he obeyed orders in the matter of the plan. He finished the ship in a single day, while his brethren stood by and made fun of it — and of him, too—" saying, our brother is a fool, for he thinketh that he can build a ship.
Page 52 - IN a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider" — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days ! Think of that for perishable horse and human flesh and blood to do! The pony-rider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance. No matter what time of the...
Page 118 - And it came to pass that when it was night they were weary, and retired to their camps; and after they had retired to their camps, they took up a howling and a lamentation for the loss of the slain of their people; and so great were their cries, their howlings and lamentations, that it did rend the air exceedingly.