 | 1814 - 644 sider
...Many of the present establishments are sejittrated from each other by immense and trftcklcsss desarts, having no communication with each other by land, except...of the weather, and carry their provisions on their backs for a time, proportioned to the length of their journey. This is particularly the case on the... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 sider
...jurisdiction of the 90 city. The lower part of the river has likewise had occasionally a separate commandant. Many of the present establishments are separated from...of the weather, and carry their provisions on their backs for a time, proportioned to the length of their journey. This is particularly the case on the... | |
 | 1902 - 512 sider
...jurisdiction of the 90 city. The lower part of the river has likewise had occasionally a separate commandant. Many of the present establishments are separated from...of the weather, and carry their provisions on their backs for a time, proportioned to the length of their journey. This is particularly the case on the... | |
 | 1902 - 510 sider
...added to it. city. The lower part of the river has likewise had occasipnally a separate commandant. Many of the present establishments are separated from...of the weather, and carry their provisions on their backs for a time, proportioned to the length of their journey. This is particularly the case on the... | |
 | Robert S. Weddle - 1995 - 394 sider
...— demanded an early effort to explore the territory. Many of the settlements, it was being said, "are separated from each other by immense and trackless...being attempted by hunters, who have to swim rivers . . . and carry their provisions on their backs."5 West of the Mississippi, this account continues,... | |
 | Joshua Montefiore - 2004 - 1532 sider
...jurisdiction of the city. The lower part of the river, has likewise had occasionally a separate commandant. "Many of the present establishments are separated...of the weather, and carry their provisions on their backs for a time, proportioned to the length of their journey. This is particularly the case on the... | |
 | Walter A. Schroeder - 2002 - 576 sider
...purchase of Louisiana, President Jefferson reported that the settlements of the newly annexed lands were "separated from each other by immense and trackless deserts, having no communication by land."27 This was an overstatement, of course, but the generalization divulged an eastern American's... | |
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Many of the present establishments are separated from each other by immense and trackless deserts, having no communication with each other by land, except now and then a solitary instance of its being attempted by hunters, who have to swim rivers, expose... 