 | Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 488 strani
...from sight. The emigrants we took on board at San Diego were objects of general interest. Tho stories of their adventures by the way sounded more marvellous...cannot be told in words. Some had come by way of Santa Fe and along the savage hills of the Gila; some, starting from Red River, had crossed the Great Stake... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1884 - 764 strani
...passage." Bayard Taylor, speaking more particularly of the land journey, said that " it more than equaled the great military expeditions of the Middle Ages, in magnitude, peril, and adventure." John S. Hittell writes, " From Maine to Texas there was a universal frenzy." One of the " pilgrims... | |
 | 1884 - 624 strani
...passage." Bayard Taylor, speaking more particularly of the land journey, said that " it more than equaled the great military expeditions of the Middle Ages, in magnitude, peril, and adventure." John S. Hittell writes, " From Maine to Texas there was a universal frenzy." One of the " pilgrims... | |
 | 1884 - 624 strani
...passage." Bayard Taylor, speaking more particularly of the land journey, said that " it more than equaled the great military expeditions of the Middle Ages, in magnitude, peril, and adventure." John S. Hittell writes, " From Maine to Texas there was a universal frenzy." One of the " pilgrims... | |
 | Charles Howard Shinn - 1884 - 348 strani
...passage." Bayard Taylor, speaking more particularly of the land-journey, said that " it more than equalled the great military expeditions of the Middle Ages, in magnitude, peril, and adventure." John S. Hittell writes : " From Maine to Texas there was one universal frenzy." One of the " pilgrims... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1889 - 296 strani
...California Crusaders, the thirty thousand or more emigrants who crossed the plains in '48 more than equals the great military expeditions of the Middle Ages, in magnitude, peril, and adventure. Some went by way of Santa Fe and along the hills of the Gila : others, starting from Red River, traversed... | |
 | 1891 - 814 strani
...the New York Tribune's correspondent, said that the movement across the plains " more than equalled the great military expeditions of the Middle Ages, in magnitude, peril, and adventure." Men came by sea and by land, " seeking the golden fleece," and thousands of them perished. Hinton K.... | |
 | William Ellsworth Smythe - 1907 - 856 strani
...lighthouse. The emigrants we took on board at San Diego were objects of general interest, The stories of their adventures by the way sounded more marvellous...which must have been endured in the savage mountain pusses and herbless deserts of the interior, cannot be told in words. Some had come by way of Santa... | |
 | William Ellsworth Smythe - 1908 - 340 strani
...had heard or read since my boyish acquaintance with Robinson Crusoe, Captain Cook, and John Lcdyard. Taking them as the average experience of the thirty...mountain passes and herbless deserts of the interior, eannot be told in words. Some had come by way of Santa J.Vf and along the savage hills of the Gila;... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - 1920 - 354 strani
...San Francisco on the vessel which had carried him from New York : The stories of these adventurers by the way sounded more marvellous than anything I...cannot be told in words. Some had come by way of Santa Fe and along the savage hills of the Gila; some, starting from Red River, had crossed the Great Stake... | |
| |
Taking them as the average experience of the thirty thousand emigrants who last year crossed the Plains, this California Crusade will more than equal the great military expeditions of the Middle Ages in magnitude, peril and adventure. 
