| 1874 - 806 Seiten
...any public or private park he had ever seen. Every step of the march up that valley was amid flowers of the most exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant...seventeen beautiful flowers, of different species, »:ni within a space of twenty feet square. The same evening, while seated at the nteatable, an officer... | |
| Frederick Whittaker - 1876 - 696 Seiten
...I ever seen such a profuse display of flowers. Every Btep of our march that day was amidst flowers of the most exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant in growth were they that men plucked them without dismounting from the saddle. Some belonged to new or unclassified species.... | |
| Frederick Whittaker - 1993 - 340 Seiten
...Forsyth, at one of onr halting places, chosen at random, plucked seventeen beantiful flowers belonging to different species, and within a space of twenty feet square. The same evening, while seated at the mess table, one of the offieers called attention to the carpet of flowers strewn under onr feet, and... | |
| Frederick Whittaker - 1993 - 340 Seiten
...I ever seen such a profuse display of flowers. Every step of our march that day was amidst flowers of the most exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant in growth were they that men plucked them without dismounting from the saddle. Some belonged to new or unclassified species.... | |
| Dennis H. Knight - 1996 - 356 Seiten
...1875). Among his many observations, Custer wrote: “Every step of our march that day was amid flowers of the most exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant in growth were they that men plucked them without dismounting from the saddle. . . . It was a strange sight . . . the men with... | |
| Brian W. Dippie - 1994 - 256 Seiten
...seen,"Custer wrote in an enthusiastic official dispatch: Every step of our march that day was amid flowers of the most exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant in growth were they that men plucked them without dismounting from the saddle. ... It was a strange sight to glance back at... | |
| N. Scott Momaday - 1997 - 228 Seiten
...eye to other things as well. He wrote in his diary: Every step of our march that day was amid flowers of the most exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant in growth were they that men plucked them without dismounting from the saddle . . . It was a strange sight to glance back at... | |
| Peter Cozzens - 2001 - 950 Seiten
...I ever seen such a profuse display of flowers. Every step of our march that day was amidst flowers of the most exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant in growth were they that men plucked them without dismounting from the saddle. Some belonged to new or unclassified species.... | |
| Ben Kiernan - 2007 - 774 Seiten
...Valley.269 His dispatch portrayed an idyllic scene: "Every step of our march that day was amidst flowers of the most exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant in growth were they that men plucked them without dismounting from the saddle It was a strange sight to glance back at the advancing... | |
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