The Making of Colorado: A Historical SketchA. Flanagan, 1908 - 324 pàgines |
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Pàgina 56 - The summit of the Grand Peak, which was entirely bare of vegetation and covered with snow, now appeared at the distance of 15 or 16 miles from us, and as high again as what we had ascended...
Pàgina 55 - Arose hungry, dry, and extremely sore, from the inequality of the rocks on which we had lain all night, but were amply compensated for toil by the sublimity of the prospects below. The unbounded prairie was overhung with clouds, which appeared like the ocean in a storm; wave piled on wave and foaming, while the sky was perfectly clear where we were.
Pàgina 110 - By the temperature of boiling water, our elevation here was 10,430 feet ; and still the pine forest continued, and grass was good. In the afternoon we continued our road, occasionally through open pines, with a very gradual ascent. We surprised a herd of buffalo, enjoying the shade at a small lake among the pines ; and they made the dry branches crack, as they broke through the woods. In a ride of about three quarters of an hour, and having ascended perhaps 800 feet, we reached the SUMMIT OF THE...
Pàgina 182 - We have come with our eyes shut, following his handful of men, like coming through the fire. All we ask is that we may have peace with the whites; we want to hold you by the hand.
Pàgina 92 - In the sight of such a mass of life, the traveler feels a strange emotion of grandeur. We had heard from a distance a dull and confused murmuring, and, when we came in view of their dark masses, there was not one among us who did not feel his heart beat quicker. It was the early part of the day, when the herds are feeding; and every where they were in motion.
Pàgina 40 - Immediately below the house was a nearly perpendicular ascent of one hundred feet, that puzzled us for a while, and which we were only able to surmount by finding cracks and crevices into which fingers and toes could be inserted. From the little ledges occasionally found, and by stepping upon each other's shoulders, and grasping tufts of yucca, one would draw himself up to another shelf, and then, by letting down a stick of cedar, or a hand, would assist the other. Soon we reached a slope, smooth...
Pàgina 41 - ... inches in size, the lower sill 24 inches from the floor ; and the other a small outlook, about 12 inches square, up near the ceiling, and looking over the canon beneath. In the upper story, a window corresponding in I I * .• * JACKSON.] ANCIENT RUINS IN S.
Pàgina 55 - ... the sky was perfectly clear where we were. Commenced our march up the mountain, and in about one hour arrived at the summit of this chain ; here we found the snow middle deep ; no sign of beast or bird inhabiting this region.
Pàgina 305 - ... the shield, upon a golden ground, a miner's badge, being the same badge prescribed by the regular heraldic rules ; as a crest above the shield the eye of God, being golden rays proceeding from the lines of a triangle; below the crest, and above the shield, as a scroll, the Roman fasces, bearing on a band of red, white, and blue, the words Union and Constitution...
Pàgina 180 - Arapahoes, Apaches, and Sioux. We are going to send a messenger to the Kiowas and to the other nations about our going to make peace with you. We heard that you have some prisoners at Denver; we have some prisoners of yours which we are willing to give up, providing you give up yours.