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... wagons to the foot of the mountains . In 1826 Messrs . Smith , Jackson , and Sublette , who later bought Mr. Ashley's establishments and interests , carried on a regular trade with the countries of the Columbia and the Colorado , under ...
... wagons to the foot of the mountains . In 1826 Messrs . Smith , Jackson , and Sublette , who later bought Mr. Ashley's establishments and interests , carried on a regular trade with the countries of the Columbia and the Colorado , under ...
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... wagons and outfits for Santa Fé . Many of the emigrants , especially of those bound for California , were persons of wealth and standing . The hotels were crowded , and the gunsmiths and saddlers were kept constantly at work in ...
... wagons and outfits for Santa Fé . Many of the emigrants , especially of those bound for California , were persons of wealth and standing . The hotels were crowded , and the gunsmiths and saddlers were kept constantly at work in ...
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... wagons , would be encamped on open spots near the bank , on their way to the common rendezvous at Indepen- dence . On a rainy day , near sunset , we reached the landing of this place , which is situated some miles from the river , on ...
... wagons , would be encamped on open spots near the bank , on their way to the common rendezvous at Indepen- dence . On a rainy day , near sunset , we reached the landing of this place , which is situated some miles from the river , on ...
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... wagons were crowded together on the banks above . In the midst of these , crouching over a smoldering fire , was a ... wagon for Westport , 3 where we hoped to procure mules and horses for the journey . It was a remarkably fresh and ...
... wagons were crowded together on the banks above . In the midst of these , crouching over a smoldering fire , was a ... wagon for Westport , 3 where we hoped to procure mules and horses for the journey . It was a remarkably fresh and ...
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... wagons were being repaired , and the horses and oxen shod . The streets were thronged with men , horses , and mules . While I was in the town , a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed through , to join the camp on the prairie ...
... wagons were being repaired , and the horses and oxen shod . The streets were thronged with men , horses , and mules . While I was in the town , a train of emigrant wagons from Illinois passed through , to join the camp on the prairie ...
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Page 338 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 47 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Page 67 - An insect with eleven legs is swimming in your teacup, a nondescript with nine wings is struggling in the small beer, or a caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hastening over the bread and butter! All nature is alive, and seems to be gathering all her entomological hosts to eat you up, as you are standing, out of your coat, waistcoat, and breeches.
Page 22 - 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 was a small French cart, of the sort very appropriately called a "mule-killer" beyond the frontiers, and not far...
Page 460 - ... nothing but a cloud of dust before me, but I knew that it concealed a band of many hundreds of buffalo. In a moment I was in the midst of the cloud, half suffocated by the dust and stunned by the trampling of the flying herd; but I was drunk with the chase and cared for nothing but the buffalo. Very soon a long dark mass became visible, looming through the dust ; then I could distinguish each bulky carcass, the hoofs flying out beneath, the short tails held rigidly erect.
Page 52 - Or stretch'd on the beach, or our saddles spread As a pillow beneath the resting head, Fresh we woke upon the morrow: All our thoughts and words had scope, We had health, and we had hope, Toil and travel, but no sorrow.
Page 458 - From the river bank on the right, away over the swelling prairie on the left, and in front as far as the eye could reach, was 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 25 - Westport was full of Indians, whose little shaggy ponies were tied by dozens along the houses and fences. Sacs and Foxes, with shaved heads and painted faces, Shawanoes and Delawares, fluttering in calico frocks and turbans, Wyandots dressed like white men, and a few wretched Kansas wrapped in old blankets, were strolling about the streets or lounging in and out of the shops and houses.
Page 91 - ... course of the journey. Sometimes we passed the grave of one who had sickened and died on the way. The earth was usually torn up, and covered thickly with wolf-tracks. Some had escaped this violation. One morning, a piece of plank, standing upright on the summit of a grassy hill, attracted our notice, and riding up to it, we found the following words very roughly traced upon it, apparently with a red-hot piece of iron:— MARY ELLIS. DIED MAY 7TH, 1845. AGED TWO MONTHS.
Page 103 - Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.