The Works of Washington Irving ...G. P. Putnam, 1861 |
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adventures alarm American Fur Company Arapooish arrived band banks Bannecks beautiful beaver Bighorn Blackfeet Blackfoot boat braves buffalo bull boat caches camp Captain Bonneville Captain Bonneville's Columbia companions comrades course Crow country danger deep defile distance encamped enemy expedition eyes feet fire Flatheads Fort Cass forward free trappers Fur Company fur trade Green River valley halt hand heart hills horses Hudson's Bay Company hunters Indian journey kind Kosato length lodge Malade River miles morning neighborhood Nez Percés night old chief party passed peltries Pierre's Hole plain Portneuf prairies precipices proceeded ravines reached region rendezvous rifle rival rocks Rocky Mountains route Salmon River savage scene scouts Shoshonie skins smoke Snake River snow soon spirit stream Sublette supplies tain tion took trade trail trapping travellers tribe turned village warriors wild wilderness William Sublette Wind River Mountains winter Wyeth
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Stran 26 - 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.
Stran 190 - 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 fish-bones out of their mouths.
Stran 225 - ... of falling. This attribute, he thinks, has been ascribed to them from the circumstance, that most trees growing near water-courses, either lean bodily towards the stream, or stretch their largest limbs in that direction, to benefit by the space, the light, and the air to be found there. The beaver, of course, attacks those trees which are nearest at hand, and on the banks of the stream or pond. He makes incisions round them, or, in technical phrase, belts them with his teeth, and when they fall,...
Stran 190 - 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 there....
Stran 181 - ... at a circuit dinner. The hunting season over, all past tricks and manoeuvres are forgotten, all feuds and bickerings buried in oblivion, From the middle of June to the middle of September, all trapping is suspended ; for the beavers are then shedding their furs, and their Bkins are of little value. This, then, is the trapper's holiday, when he is all for fun and frolic, and ready for a saturnalia among the mountains.
Stran 405 - ... the trappers, in their seasons of idleness and relaxation, require a degree of license and indulgence, to repay them for the long privations and almost incredible hardships of their periods of active service. In the midst of all this feasting and frolicking, a freak of the tender passion intervened, and wrought a complete change in the scene. Among the Indian beauties in the camp of the Eutaws and Shoshonies, the free trappers discovered two, who had whilom figured as their squaws. These connections...
Stran 182 - ... 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 MAD WOLVES. 231 fancy, would stamp him with the mark of the beast in the estimation of his comrades.