 | A. J. Allen - Indians of North America - 1850 - 438 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...instruments) that almost directly west, and only about seventy miles distant, was the great farming establishment of Captain Sutter — a gentleman who had... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - California - 1850 - 476 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...given them confidence in my observations and good instru11 H -n is) that almost directly west, and only about 70 miles distant, was the great farming... | |
 | John Charles Frémont, Samuel Mosheim Smucker - History - 1856 - 536 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures nnd abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...instruments) that almost directly west, and only about 70 milos distant, was the great farming establishment of Captain Sutter — a gentleman who had formerly... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 132 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...instruments) that almost directly west, and only about seventy miles distant, was the great farming establishment of Captain Sutter — a gentleman who had... | |
 | John Bigelow - California - 1856 - 508 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between ils summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...instruments) that almost directly west, and only about seventy miles distant, was the great fiirmuig establishment of Captain Suiter — a gentleman who had... | |
 | John Bigelow - California - 1856 - 502 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the falling snow around us. I informed them ' O (and long experience had given them confidence in my observations and good instruments) that almost... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River - 1858 - 678 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding gam(, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...instruments) that almost directly west, and only about seventy miles distant, was the great farming establishment of Captain Sutler — a gentleman who had... | |
 | Charles Burdett - Frontier and pioneer life - 1862 - 412 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...instruments) that almost directly west, and only about seventy miles distant, was the great farming establishment of Captain Sutter — a gentleman who had... | |
 | Charles Burdett - Frontier and pioneer life - 1865 - 410 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...instruments) that almost directly west, and only about seventy miles distant, was the great farming establishment of Captain Sutter — a gentleman who had... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1866 - 710 pages
...us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding game, and drew a vivid contrast between its summer climate, less than a hundred miles distant, and the...instruments) that almost directly west, and only about seventy miles distant, was the great farming establishment of Captain Sutler — a gentleman who had... | |
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... them of the beautiful valley of the Sacramento, with which they were familiar from the descriptions of Carson, who had been there some fifteen years ago, and who, in our late privations, had delighted us in speaking of its rich pastures and abounding... 
