| Don Carlos Seitz - 1925 - 376 páginas
...these affairs: "The camp was raised upon ... a piece of table-land comprising many acres. About one acre and a half was surrounded on the four sides by...cabins built up of rough boards; the whole area in the center was fitted up with planks, laid about a foot from the ground, as seats. At one end, but not... | |
| Cindy Sondik Aron - 2001 - 340 páginas
...Frederick Marryat described in 1838 a campground near Cincinnati encompassing "an acre and a half. . . surrounded on the four sides by cabins built up of rough boards." A preacher's pulpit at the center was encircled by "hundreds of tents pitched in every quarter." Marryat... | |
| Mark Twain - 2001 - 658 páginas
...Chapter '52 of his 184!) diary, a work Twain read and extensively quoted in Life on the Mississippi: About an acre and a half was surrounded on the four sides bv cabins built up of rough boards, the whole area in the centre was fitted up with planks, laid about... | |
| Andrew Wilson-Dickson - 2003 - 268 páginas
...The many editions of this influential hymn-book more carefully organized, though no less emotional: About an acre and a half was surrounded on the four...about a foot from the ground, as seats. At one end. . . was a raised stand, which served as a pulpit for the preachers. . . Outside the area. . . were... | |
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