| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 604 pages
...the horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses and mules. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows who,... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1852 - 466 pages
...the horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses, and mules. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1875 - 406 pages
...the horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses, and mules. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons 'from Illinois passed...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very soberlooking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1877 - 406 pages
...the horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses, and mules. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed...peeping out from under the covers of the wagons. Here aud there a buxom damsel was seated on horseback, holding over her sunburnt face an old umbrella or... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1880 - 410 pages
...the horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses, and mules. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed through, to join the camp 011 the prairie, and stopped in the principal street. A multitude of healthy children's faces were... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1898 - 286 pages
...the horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses, and mules. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,... | |
| George I. Aldrich, Alexander Forbes - 1900 - 248 pages
...horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses, and mules. 12. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very soberlooking countrymen, stood about their oxen ; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,... | |
| M. Halley, Leonard Lemmon - 1903 - 232 pages
...horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses and mules. 14. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,... | |
| Clinton A. Snowden - 1909 - 650 pages
...the horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses, and mules. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed...on horseback, holding over her sunburnt face an old unbrella or parasol, once gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen,... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1910 - 400 pages
...the horses and oxen shod. The streets were thronged with men, horses, and mules. While I was in the town, a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed...gaudy enough, but now miserably faded. The men, very sober-looking countrymen, stood about their oxen; and as I passed I noticed three old fellows, who,... | |
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