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  • In May, 1849, when the snow drifts were still deep in the cañons of the Sierras, he had crossed the mountains, past Donner Lake and the graves of the Donner party, through Emigrant's Gap, to the valley of the Sacramento.

    Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California Angelo Hall

  • Then you have the really stirring songs of the Highlands, such as "A Chlanna Chuinn Cuimhnichibh" (Harlaw), "The Emigrant's Lament," and hundreds of others of which I could tell you.

    Patriotism and Poetry 1928

  • "Abridgment of the History of Ireland" and an "Irish Emigrant's Guide to the United States", besides publishing in the "Boston Pilot" a series of learned papers on St. Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Yet certain passages - notably in the Irish Emigrant's Lament - had sympathetic sweetness that helped one to credit the stories of his former successes.

    Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

  • The Emigrant's hand sought and crushed the big packet of sweets well into his pocket.

    Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Catherine had an alarming paroxysm in Philadelphia which expended itself in “The Emigrant's Farewell.”

    The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889

  • An attempt was made some short time since to have an Emigrant's Home as a sort of Model Barrack, erected in one of the New Docks, so as to form a counterpoise to the frauds of emigration lodging-house keepers, but local jealousies defeated a plan which would have been equally advantageous to the town and the emigrants.

    Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

  • See "Emigrant's Guide through the Valley of the Mississippi," Page 275.

    American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839

  • Emigrant's Guide through the Valley of Mississippi 135

    American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839

  • Emigrant's Guide:” — considering with myself that these my adventurous journeyings and tarryings beyond the confines of civilization, might fairly be held to confer the traveller's privilege.

    A New Home - Who'll Follow? 1839

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