The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-mountain LifeLittle, Brown,, 1892 - 381 pages |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-mountain Life Francis Parkman Affichage du livre entier - 1920 |
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animals antelope Arapahoes arrows band of horses bank began Bent's Fort Bisonette Black Hills black-tailed deer Blackfeet broken buffalo buffalo-robes bull bushes camp Captain close companions crowd Dahcotah dark Deslauriers distance dogs emigrants encamped enemy eyes face farther feet fire followed foot Fort Laramie Fort Leavenworth forward galloped grass grizzly bear ground half hand head Henry Chatillon horses hour hunters Indians journey killed Laramie Creek leaped length lodge looked Mahto-Tatonka meadow meat Medicine Bow Mountain Mene-Seela miles Missouri morning mountains mounted mule night Ogillallah party passed Pawnees pipe plain Platte Pontiac prairie ravine Raymond rest Reynal riding rifle river rocks Rocky Rocky Mountains rode saddle scarcely seated seemed Shaw side sight sleep smoke soon squaw stood stream stretched tall tent Tête Rouge traders trail trappers trees turned village wagons warriors wolves woods yells young
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Page viii - The wild cavalcade that defiled with me down the gorges of the Black Hills, with its paint and war-plumes, fluttering trophies and savage embroidery, bows, arrows, lances, and shields, will never be seen again. Those who formed it have found bloody graves, or a ghastlier burial in the maws of wolves. The Indian of to-day, armed with a revolver and crowned with an old hat; cased, possibly, in trousers or muffled in a tawdry shirt — is an Indian still, but an Indian shorn of the picturesqueness which...
Page 109 - Oregon, they had seen no whites, except the few employed about the Fur Company's posts. They thought them a wise people, inferior only to themselves, living in leather lodges, like their own, and subsisting on buffalo. But when the swarm of Meneaska, with their oxen and wagons, began to invade them, their astonishment was unbounded. They could scarcely believe that the earth contained such a multitude of white men. Their wonder is now giving way to indignation ; and the result, unless vigilantly...
Page 105 - Pointing it eastward, he exclaimed, with an oath, that the families were coming. But a few moments elapsed before the heavy caravan of the emigrant wagons could be seen, steadily advancing from the hills. They gained the river, and, without turning or pausing, plunged in...
Page 6 - ... migration; but whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire of shaking off restraints of law and society, or mere restlessness, certain it is that multitudes bitterly repent the journey, and, after they have reached the land of promise, are happy enough to escape from it.
Page 61 - We all drew rein, and, gathering in a knot on the crest of the hill, sat joyfully looking down upon the prospect. It was right welcome ; strange too, and striking to the imagination, and yet it had not one picturesque or beautiful feature ; nor had it any of the features of grandeur, other than its vast extent, its solitude and its wildness.
Page 258 - ... arts of a man of gallantry. He wore his red blanket dashingly over his left shoulder, painted his cheeks every day with vermilion, and hung pendants of shells in his ears. If I observed aright, he met with very good success in his new pursuits ; still the Hail-Storm had much to accomplish before he attained the full standing of a warrior. Gallantly as he began to bear himself...
Page 116 - ... Grande. In a day and a half I was reduced to extreme weakness, so that I could not walk without pain and effort. Having within that time taken six grains of opium, without the least beneficial effect, and...
Page 192 - The squaw spread a buffalo-robe for us in the guest's place at the head of the lodge. Our saddles were brought in, and scarcely were we seated upon them before the place was thronged with Indians, who came crowding in to see us.
Page 268 - For the most part, a civilized white man can discover but very few points of sympathy between his own nature and that of an Indian. With every disposition to do justice to their good qualities, he must be conscious that an impassable gulf lies between him and his red brethren of the prairie.
Page 336 - I distinguished the white covering of the cart and the little black specks of horsemen before and behind it. Drawing near, I recognized Shaw's elegant tunic, the red flannel shirt, conspicuous far off. I overtook the party, and asked him what success he had had. He had assailed a fat cow, shot her with two bullets, and mortally wounded her. But neither of us was prepared for the chase that afternoon, and Shaw, like myself, had no spare bullets in his pouch; so he abandoned the disabled animal to...