 It is on the stroke of seven ; the rush to and fro, the cracking of whips, the loud command to oxen, and what seemed to be the inextricable confusion of the last ten minutes has ceased. Fortunately every one has been found and every teamster is at his...  Pioneer Days of Oregon History - Page 493by Samuel A. Clarke - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Woodson Nixon - Northwestern States - 1895 - 388 pages
...the line of march; the rest fall into their places with the precision of clock-work, until the post, so lately full of life, sinks back into that solitude...the distant El Dorado. " It is with the hunters we will briskly canter THE WONDERFUL PANORAMA. 151 toward the bold but smooth and grassy bluffs that bound... | |
 | Oliver Woodson Nixon - Northwest, Pacific - 1895 - 390 pages
...the precision of clock-work, until the post, so lately full of life, sinks back into that §olitude that seems to reign over the broad plain and rushing...toward the distant El Dorado. It is with the hunters we will briskly canter THE WONDERFUL PANORAMA. 151 toward the bold but smooth and grassy bluffs that bound... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - Oregon - 1901 - 720 pages
...way. Ten or fifteen young men, not today on duty, form another cluster. They are ready to start ou a buffalo hunt, are well mounted and well armed, as...rushing river as the caravan draws its lazy length towards the distant El Dorado. It is with the hunters we shall briskly canter towards the bold but... | |
 | Joseph Schafer - Alaska - 1904 - 544 pages
...encampment and take up the line of march; the rest fall into their places with the precision of clockwork, until the spot so lately full of life sinks back into...draws its lazy length toward the distant El Dorado. . . . "The pilot, by measuring the ground and timing the speed of his horses, has determined the rate... | |
 | Ezra Meeker - Northwestern States - 1906 - 264 pages
...encampment, and take up the line of march; the rest fall into their places with the precision of clock-work, until the spot so lately full of life sinks back into...rushing river as the caravan draws its lazy length towards the distant El Dorado. "The pilot, by measuring the ground and timing the speed of the horses,... | |
 | Ezra Meeker - Frontier and pioneer life - 1906 - 272 pages
...encampment, and take up the line of march; the rest fall into their places with the precision of clock-work, until the spot so lately full of life sinks back into that solitude that seerns to reign over the broad plain and rushing river as the caravan draws its lazy length towards... | |
 | Ezra Meeker - Northwestern States - 1907 - 268 pages
...encampment, and take up the line of march ; the rest fall into their places with the precision of clock-work, until the spot so lately full of life sinks back into...rushing river as the caravan draws its lazy length towards the distant El Dorado. "The pilot, by measuring the ground and timing the speed of the horses,... | |
 | Joseph Gaston - Oregon - 1912 - 1078 pages
...of a trumpet sound in the front; the pilot and his guards mount their horses ; the leading division of the wagons move out of the encampment, and take...rushing river as the caravan draws its lazy length towards the distant El Dorado. * * * "They (the wagons) form a line three-quarters of a mile in length;... | |
 | Ezra Meeker - Frontier and pioneer life - 1912 - 164 pages
...encampmen and take up the line of march; the rest fall into their places with the precision of clockwork, until the spot so lately full of life sinks back into...rushing river as the caravan draws its lazy length towards the distant El Dorado. "The pilot, by measuring the ground and timing the speed of the horses,... | |
 | Seymour Dunbar - Frontier and pioneer life - 1915 - 438 pages
...encampment, and take up the line of march; the rest fall into their places with the precision of clockwork, until the spot so lately full of life sinks back into...rushing river as the caravan draws its lazy length towards the distant El Dorado. , . . ''The pilot, by measuring the ground and tinning the speed of... | |
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