The Complete Writings of Washington Irving, Including His Life, Volume 18Collegiate Society, 1905 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
adventures alarm American Fur Company arrived band banks Bannecks beautiful beaver Bighorn Blackfeet Blackfoot boat braves buffalo bull boat caches camp Captain Bonne Captain Bonneville Captain Bonneville's companions comrades course Crow country danger deep defile distance encamped enemy expedition eyes feet fire Fitzpatrick Flatheads Fort Cass free trappers Fur Company fur trade Green River Valley halt hand heart hills horses Hudson's Bay Company hunters Indians journey kind Kosato length lodge Malade River miles morning moun 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 round route Salmon River savage scene scouts Shoshonie skins smoke Snake River snow soon spirit stream Sublette supplies tain tion took trade trail trap travellers tribe turned village warriors wild wilderness William Sublette Wind River Mountains winter Wyeth
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Pagina 42 - ... precipices, searching, by routes inaccessible to the horse, and never before trodden by white man, for springs and lakes unknown to his comrades, and where he may meet with his favorite game. Such is the mountaineer, the hardy trapper of the West; and such, as we have slightly sketched it, is the wild, Kobin Hood kind of life, with all its strange and motley populace, now existing in full vigor among the Rocky Mountains.
Pagina 40 - 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.
Pagina 230 - 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...
Pagina 521 - Are you aware of the fact, that in the winter of 1833, a Japanese junk was wrecked on the northwest coast, in the neighborhood of Queen Charlotte's Island ; and that all but two of the crew, then much reduced by starvation and disease, during a long drift across the Pacific, were killed by the natives ? The two fell into the hands of the Hudson's Bay Company and were sent to England. I saw them, on my arrival at Vancouver, in 1834.
Pagina 230 - 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.
Pagina 149 - 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 every thing with keen and prying eye, and watching every movement...
Pagina 521 - Mountains and beyond, with a view of ascertaining the nature and character of the several tribes of Indians inhabiting those regions ; the trade which might be profitably carried on with them ; the quality of the soil, the productions, the minerals, the natural history, the climate, the geography and topography, as well as geology, of the various parts of the country...
Pagina 495 - ... 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...