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The Emigrant Trail. Bonner Geraldine
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isbn 4057664584786
Автор произведения Bonner Geraldine
Жанр Языкознание
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PART I
THE PRAIRIE
CHAPTER I | CHAPTER II | CHAPTER III | CHAPTER IV |
CHAPTER V | CHAPTER VI | CHAPTER VII | CHAPTER VIII |
PART II
THE RIVER
CHAPTER I | CHAPTER II | CHAPTER III | CHAPTER IV |
CHAPTER V | CHAPTER VI | CHAPTER VII | CHAPTER VIII |
PART III
THE MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER I | CHAPTER II | CHAPTER III | CHAPTER IV |
CHAPTER V | CHAPTER VI | CHAPTER VII | CHAPTER VIII |
PART IV
THE DESERT
CHAPTER I | CHAPTER II | CHAPTER III | CHAPTER IV |
CHAPTER V | CHAPTER VI |
PART V
THE PROMISED LAND
CHAPTER I | CHAPTER II | CHAPTER III | CHAPTER IV |
THE EMIGRANT TRAIL
PART I
The Prairie
CHAPTER I
It had rained steadily for three days, the straight, relentless rain of early May on the Missouri frontier. The emigrants, whose hooded wagons had been rolling into Independence for the past month and whose tents gleamed through the spring foliage, lounged about in one another's camps cursing the weather and swapping bits of useful information.
The year was 1848 and the great California emigration was still twelve months distant. The flakes of gold had already been found in the race of Sutter's mill, and the thin scattering of men, which made the population of California, had left their plows in the furrow and their ships in the cove and gone to the yellow rivers that drain the Sierra's