The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, Volume 18Little, Brown, 1900 - 479 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 - 1900 |
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life Francis Parkman Affichage d'extraits - 1899 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
animals antelope approached Arapahoes arrows band band of horses bank began Bent's Fort Bisonette Black Hills Blackfeet broken buffalo buffalo bull buffalo-robes bull bushes camp captain close companions crowd Dahcotah dark Deslauriers distance emigrants encamped enemy eyes face farther feet fire followed foot Fort Laramie forward galloped grass grizzly bear ground half hand head Henry Chatillon horseback horses hour hunters Indians journey killed Laramie Creek length lodge looked meadow meat 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 Mountains rode saddle seated seemed Shaw shot side sight sleep smoking soon squaw stood stream stretched tall tent Tête Rouge traders trail trappers trees turned village wagons walked war-party warriors whole wild wolves young
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Page xiv - 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.
Page 237 - He greeted me with a guttural " How, cola ! " I requested Reynal to tell him that Raymond and I were come to live with him. The Big Crow gave another low exclamation.
Page 315 - ... 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 19 - Her upper deck was covered with large wagons of a peculiar form, for the Santa Fe trade, and her hold was crammed with goods for the same destination. There were also the equipments and provisions of a party of Oregon emigrants, a band of mules and horses, piles of saddles and harness, and a multitude of nondescript articles, indispensable on the prairies. Almost hidden in this medley, one might have seen a small French cart, of the sort very appropriately called a "mule-killer" beyond the frontiers,...
Page xiii - ... Pike's Peak, when for a fortnight we met no face of man, my companion remarked, in a tone anything but complacent, that a time would come when those plains would be a grazing country, the buffalo give place to tame cattle, farmhouses be scattered along the water-courses, and wolves, bears, and Indiana be numbered among the things that were.
Page 403 - ... one vast host of buffalo. The outskirts of the herd were within a quarter of a mile. In many parts they were crowded so densely together that in the distance their rounded backs presented a surface of uniform blackness...
Page 19 - ... Not only were emigrants from every part of the country preparing for the journey to Oregon and California, but an unusual number of traders were making ready their wagons and outfits for Santa Fe.
Page 314 - ... suppressed ejaculations, to the great indignation of Reynal. Our mortification was increased when we rode up to his lodge. Here we saw his young Indian relative, the Hail-Storm, his light graceful figure reclining on the ground in an easy attitude, while with his friend the Rabbit, who sat by his side, he was making an abundant meal from a wooden bowl of wasna, whic'.h the squaw had placed between them. Near him lay the fresh skin of a female elk, which he had just killed among the mountains,...
Page 21 - With all these changes, the water is so charged with mud and sand that, in spring, it is perfectly opaque, and in a few minutes deposits a sediment an inch thick in the bottom of a tumbler. The river was now high; but when we descended in the autumn it was fallen very low, and all the secrets of its treacherous shallows were exposed to view.
Page 399 - ... the muzzle, the gun would probably burst in discharging. Many a shattered hand and worse casualties besides have been the result of such an accident. To obviate it, some hunters make use of a ramrod, usually hung by a string from the neck, but this materially increases the difficulty of loading. The bows and arrows which the Indians use in running buffalo have many advantages over firearms, and even white men occasionally employ them.