The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West: Digested from His Journal and Illustrated from Various Other Sources, Band 2G.P. Putnam and Son, 1868 - 503 Seiten |
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adventures alarm American Fur Company Astoria band banks Banneck beautiful beaver Bighorn Blackfeet Blackfoot boat braves buffalo bull boat caches camp Captain Bonne Captain Bonneville Captain Bonneville's Columbia companions comrades course Crow country danger deep defile distance encamped enemy expedition eyes feet fire Flatheads Fort Cass free trappers Fur Company fur trade Green River Valley halt hand heart hills horses Hudson's Bay Company hunters Indian journey Kosato lodge Malade River ments miles morning moun neighborhood Nez Percés night old chief party passed peltries Pierre's Hole plain Portneuf prairies proceeded ravines reached region rendezvous rifle rival rocks Rocky Mountains route Salmon River savage scouts Shoshonies skins smoke Snake River Snake River plain snow soon spirit squaw stream Sublette supplies tain Bonneville tion took trade trail trap travellers tribe village warriors wild wilderness William Sublette Wind River Mountains winter Wyeth
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Seite 37 - ... 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 and defies all difficulties.
Seite 138 - ... sojourn, realized, he says, the idea of a "populous solitude." The kind and genial character of the captain had, evidently, its influence on the opposite races thus fortuitously congregated together. The most perfect harmony prevailed between them. The Indians, he says, were friendly in their dispositions, and honest to the most scrupulous degree in their intercourse with the white men. It is true they were somewhat importunate in their curiosity, and apt to be continually in the way, examining...
Seite 36 - 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, in thought, and deed ; heedless of hardship ; daring of danger ; prodigal of the present, and thoughtless of the future.
Seite 220 - The Crow country is exactly in the right place. It has snowy mountains and sunny plains ; all kinds of climates and good things for every season. When the summer heats scorch the prairies, you can draw up under the mountains, where the air is sweet and cool, the grass fresh, and the bright streams come tumbling out of the snow-banks.
Seite 492 - ... and volcanic plains, several hundred miles in width, must ever remain an irreclaimable wilderness, intervening between the abodes of civilization, and affording a last refuge to the Indian. Here, roving tribes of hunters, living in tents or lodges, and following the migrations of the game, may lead a life of savage independence, where there is nothing to tempt the cupidity of the white man.
Seite 211 - Now commenced a scene of eager competition and wild prodigality at the different encampments. Bales were hastily ripped open, and their motley contents poured forth. A mania for purchasing spread itself throughout the several bands, — munitions for war, for hunting, for gallantry, were seized upon with equal avidity — rifles, hunting knives, traps, scarlet cloth, red blankets, gairish beads, and glittering trinkets, were bought at any price, and scores run up without any thought how they were...
Seite 211 - ... 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.
Seite 262 - ... 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,...