Sporting Excursions in the Rocky Mountains: Including a Journey to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c, Bind 1H. Colburn, 1840 - 312 sider |
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abundant afternoon amongst animal antelope appearance approach arrived band bank Bannecks beautiful BIG WOOD RIVER birds Blackfeet Blackfoot blankets bluffs breakfast buffalo bull bushes camp canoe Captain chief commenced companions considerable countenance covered creek deer difficulty distance dried encamped eyes feet fire fish Fort Hall Fort Vancouver grass grizzly bear ground half head herd hills horses hour hundred yards hunters hunting immediately Indians Jason Lee joined journey Kanzas killed lodges looking McKay McKay's meal meat miles missionary morning mountain Nez Percé night noon observed party passed Pawnee plain Platte river poor Portneuf river prairie probably rel hunt rendez-vous Richardson rifle Rocheport rocks rocky rode route saddle salmon sandy savage scarcely seemed seen SHOCKING ACCIDENT Shoshoné side skin Snake river soon spot stopped stream tain tent tion to-day trappers travelling tribe visited Walla-walla whole willows wolves Wyeth
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Side 123 - There is, in addition to these, a great variety of personages amongst us; most of them calling themselves white men, FrenchCanadians, half-breeds, &c., their color nearly as dark, and their manners wholly as wild, as the Indians with whom they constantly associate. These people, with their obstreperous mirth, their whooping, and howling, and quarrelling, added to the mounted Indians, who are constantly dashing into and through our camp, yelling like fiends, the barking and baying of savage wolf-dogs,...
Side 163 - I felt awed, almost frightened, at the task I had undertaken. But I had gone too far to retreat; so, raising my gun, I took deliberate aim at the bushy centre of the forehead, and fired. The monster shook his head, pawed up the earth with his hoofs, and making a sudden spring, accompanied by a terrific roar, turned to make his escape.
Side 111 - ... the party in his desperate flight, and his lugubrious cries reached the ears of the men in front, about a dozen of them rode to his assistance, and soon succeeded in diverting the attention of his pertinacious foe. After he had received the contents of all the guns, he fell, and was soon dispatched. The man rode in among his fellows, pale and haggard from overwrought feelings, and was probably effectually cured of a propensity for meddling with grizzly bears.
Side 123 - I am confined closely to the tent with illness, and am compelled all day to listen to the hiccoughing jargon of drunken traders, the sacre and f outre of Frenchmen run wild, and the swearing and screaming of our own men, who are scarcely less savage than the rest, being heated by the detestable liquor which circulates freely among them.
Side 173 - Drawing his long scalping knife from the sheath at his side, he plunged the keen weapon through his horse's neck, and severed the spine. The animal dropped instantly dead, and the determined hunter, throwing himself behind the fallen carcass, waited calmly the approach of his sanguinary pursuers. In a few moments, one Indian was within range of the fatal rifle, and at its report, his horse galloped riderless over the plain. The remaining two then thought to take him at advantage by approaching simultaneously...
Side 163 - ... had undertaken. But I had gone too far to retreat; so, raising my gun, I took deliberate aim at the bushy centre of the forehead, and fired. The monster shook his head, pawed up the earth with his hoofs, and making a sudden spring, accompanied by a terrific roar, turned to make his escape. At that instant, the ball from the second barrel penetrated his vitals, and he measured his huge length upon the ground. In a few seconds he was dead. Upon examining the head, and cutting away the enormous...
Side 142 - As we approached our encampment, near a small grove of willows, on the margin of the river., a tremendous grizzly bear rushed out upon us. Our horses ran wildly in every direction, snorting with terror, and became nearly unmanageable. Several balls were instantly fired into him, but they only seemed to increase his fury. After spending a moment in rending each wound, (their invariable practice,) he selected the person who happened to be nearest, and darted after him, but before he proceeded far,...
Side 33 - ON the 28th of April, at 10 o'clock in the morning, our caravan, consisting of seventy men, and two hundred and fifty horses, began its march; Captain Wyeth and Milton Sublette took the lead, Mr. N. and myself rode beside them; then the men in double file, each leading, with a line, two horses heavily laden, and Captain Thing (Captain W.'s assistant) brought up the rear.
Side 67 - ... tangent, and throw his pursuers from the track. At length the poor animal came to bay, and made some unequivocal demonstrations of combat, raising and tossing his head furiously, and tearing up the ground with his feet. At this moment a shot was fired. The victim trembled like an aspen leaf, and fell on his knees, but recovering himself in an instant, started again as fast as before. Again the determined hunters dashed after him, but the poor bull was nearly exhausted : he proceeded but a short...
Side 49 - The birds, too, sing joyously amongst them — grosbeaks, thrushes, and buntings — a merry and musical band. I am particularly fond of sallying out early in the morning, and strolling around the camp. The light breeze just bends the tall tops of the grass on the boundless prairie, the birds are commencing their matin carollings, and all nature looks fresh and beautiful. The horses of the camp are lying comfortably on their sides, and seem, by the glances which they give me in passing, to know that...