The Rocky Mountains: Or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West, Volume 2Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1837 - Northwestern States |
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... trapping parties - Manœuvring — A desperate game— Vanderburgh and the Blackfeet - Deserted camp fire - A dark defile - An Indian ambush - A fierce melée - fatal consequences - Fitzpatrick and Bridger - Trappers ' pre- cautions - Meeting ...
... trapping parties - Manœuvring — A desperate game— Vanderburgh and the Blackfeet - Deserted camp fire - A dark defile - An Indian ambush - A fierce melée - fatal consequences - Fitzpatrick and Bridger - Trappers ' pre- cautions - Meeting ...
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... trapping - An alarm - An interruption - A rival band - Phenomena of Snake river plain - Vast clefts and chasms - Ingulfed streams - Sublime scenery - A grand buffalo hunt . CHAPTER XVIII . · PAGE 145 152 163 172 . Meeting with Hodgkiss ...
... trapping - An alarm - An interruption - A rival band - Phenomena of Snake river plain - Vast clefts and chasms - Ingulfed streams - Sublime scenery - A grand buffalo hunt . CHAPTER XVIII . · PAGE 145 152 163 172 . Meeting with Hodgkiss ...
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... trapping organized beyond the mountains . It is difficult to do justice to the courage , fortitude , and perseverance of the pioneers of the fur trade , who conducted these early expeditions , and first broke their way through a ...
... trapping organized beyond the mountains . It is difficult to do justice to the courage , fortitude , and perseverance of the pioneers of the fur trade , who conducted these early expeditions , and first broke their way through a ...
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... trapping of the head waters of the Columbia , and the other great tributaries of the Pacific . Beside the regular operations of these formidable rivals , there have been from time to time desultory enterprises , or rather experiments ...
... trapping of the head waters of the Columbia , and the other great tributaries of the Pacific . Beside the regular operations of these formidable rivals , there have been from time to time desultory enterprises , or rather experiments ...
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... trapping grounds . next season . A new species of strategy has sprung out of this hunting and trapping competition . The constant study of the rival bands is to forestall and outwit each other ; to supplant each other in the good will ...
... trapping grounds . next season . A new species of strategy has sprung out of this hunting and trapping competition . The constant study of the rival bands is to forestall and outwit each other ; to supplant each other in the good will ...
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Page 210 - is a good country. The Great Spirit has put it exactly in the right place; while you-are in it you fare well; whenever you go out of it, whichever way you travel, you fare worse. "If you go to the south, you have to wander over great barren plains; the water is warm and bad, and you meet the fever and ague.
Page 211 - To the north it is cold ; the winters are long and bitter, with no grass ; you cannot keep horses there, but must travel with dogs. What is a country without horses ! " On the Columbia they are poor and dirty, paddle about in canoes, and eat fish. Their teeth are worn out ; they are always taking fishbones out of their mouths.
Page 24 - A man who bestrides a horse must be essentially different from a man who cowers in a canoe. We find them, accordingly, hardy, lithe, vigorous, and active; extravagant in word, and thought, and deed; heedless of hardship; daring of danger; prodigal of the present, and thoughtless of the future. A difference is to be perceived even between these mountain hunters and those of the lower regions along the waters of the Missouri.
Page 201 - ... beads, and glittering trinkets, were bought at any price, and scores run up without any thought how they were ever to be rubbed off. The free trappers, especially, were extravagant in their purchases. For a free mountaineer to pause at a paltry consideration of dollars and cents, in the attainment of any object that might strike his fancy, would stamp him with the mark of the beast in the estimation of his comrades.
Page 107 - Simply to call these people religious," says he, "would convey but a faint idea of the deep hue of piety and devotion which pervades their whole conduct. Their honesty is immaculate, and their purity of purpose, and their observance of the rites of their religion, are most uniform and remarkable. They are, certainly, more like a nation of saints than a horde of savages.
Page 212 - In the autumn, when your horses are fat and strong from the mountain pastures, you can go down into the plains and hunt the buffalo, or trap beaver on the streams. And when winter comes on, you can take shelter in the woody bottoms along the rivers; there you will find buffalo meat for yourselves, and cotton-wood bark for your horses; or you may winter in the Wind River valley, where there is salt weed in abundance. " The Crow country is exactly in the right place. Everything good is to be found...
Page 25 - Bonneville, who lead a life of more continued exertion, peril, and excitement, and who are more enamoured of their occupations, than the free trappers of the West. No toil, no danger, no privation can turn the trapper from his pursuit. His passionate excitement at times resembles a mania. In vain may the most vigilant and cruel savages beset his path; in vain may rocks, and precipices, and wintry torrents oppose his progress; let but a single track of a beaver meet his eye, and he forgets all dangers...