The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 54National Geographic Society, 1929 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 111
... passed the pumping works of one of the few irrigation projects on the Missouri . On account of its nature and habits , gravity diversion on any ex- tensive scale is practicable at no point on the Missouri below the Yellowstone . is done ...
... passed the pumping works of one of the few irrigation projects on the Missouri . On account of its nature and habits , gravity diversion on any ex- tensive scale is practicable at no point on the Missouri below the Yellowstone . is done ...
Page 119
... passed another famous burial place , that of the great Omaha chief , Blackbird , who died a few years before Lewis and Clark came . He was buried , sitting on horseback , in a mound built at the summit of an eminence still called ...
... passed another famous burial place , that of the great Omaha chief , Blackbird , who died a few years before Lewis and Clark came . He was buried , sitting on horseback , in a mound built at the summit of an eminence still called ...
Page 139
... passed great thistlelike plants ( Echinops ) with globular flowers of pink . These thistles are from twelve to fifteen feet in height and often form an impenetrable barrier across small valleys . About the gently swaying flowers flit ...
... passed great thistlelike plants ( Echinops ) with globular flowers of pink . These thistles are from twelve to fifteen feet in height and often form an impenetrable barrier across small valleys . About the gently swaying flowers flit ...
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