Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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Horses. 21 $ 4 Despite this almost universal urge , there was no hankering for the law in Ulysses . He was incapable of the mental sleight of hand which a lawyer needs ; not only that , he was without the desire to acquire it .
Horses. 21 $ 4 Despite this almost universal urge , there was no hankering for the law in Ulysses . He was incapable of the mental sleight of hand which a lawyer needs ; not only that , he was without the desire to acquire it .
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Another adventure was with an unbroken horse which he had harnessed to a buggy and was bringing home from Kentucky . ... He had heard that blind horses are not likely to run away , so he took out his handkerchief and tied it across the ...
Another adventure was with an unbroken horse which he had harnessed to a buggy and was bringing home from Kentucky . ... He had heard that blind horses are not likely to run away , so he took out his handkerchief and tied it across the ...
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After that he writes of the price of mules . . . eight dollars a piece ... herds of wild horses on the plains of game in the country , too ... then comes the story of his futile turkey hunt that I have given in an earlier chapter .
After that he writes of the price of mules . . . eight dollars a piece ... herds of wild horses on the plains of game in the country , too ... then comes the story of his futile turkey hunt that I have given in an earlier chapter .
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Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
GRANT FALLS IN LOVE | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | H. Liveright, 1928 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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