 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 478 sider
...chiefs son asked me if I would like to see the old buffalo pound, in which they had been entrapping buffalo during the past week. With a ready compliance...which the pound was built. Within a circular fence, 130 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 448 sider
...chiefs son asked me if I would like to see the old buffalo pound, in which they had been entrapping buffalo during the past week. With a ready compliance...which the pound was built. Within a circular fence, 130 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1863 - 438 sider
...chiefs son asked me if I would like to see the old buffalo pound, in which they had been entrapping buffalo during the past week. With a ready compliance...between sand hills, through a lane of branches of treeswhich are called 'dead men,' to the gate or trap of the pound. A sight most horrible and disgusting... | |
 | America North - 1864 - 396 sider
...week they have been entrapping buffalo. We accept the offer, and a guide leads us to a little valley through a lane of branches of trees which are called...of the pound. A sight most horrible and disgusting breaks upon us as we ascend a hill overlooking the pound. Within a circular fence, 120 feet broad,... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 sider
...dignity as if he was about to show us some delightful pleasuregrounds, he led us to a little valley through a lane of branches of trees, which are called " dead men," to the gate or trap of the pound. The branches are called " dead" or " silent men," rather from the office they perform of keeping the... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1868 - 382 sider
...dignity as if he was about to show us some delightful pleasure-grounds, he led us to a little valley, through a lane of branches of trees which are called "dead men," to the gate or trap of the pound. The branches are called "dead," or "silent men " rather, from the office they perform of keeping the... | |
 | George McKinnon Wrong, Hugh Hornby Langton, William Stewart Wallace - 1911 - 248 sider
...1857-8. The Indians had just entrapped a herd of buffalo in one of their pounds. "A horrible sight broke upon us as we ascended a sand dune overhanging...which the pound was built. Within a circular fence one hundred and twenty feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together,... | |
 | D. W. Oates - 1914 - 224 sider
...through the interpreter, if I would like to see the old buffalo pound, in which they had been entrapping buffalo during the past week. With a ready compliance...called ' dead men,' to the gate or trap of the pound. r^" A horrible sight broke upon us as we ascended a sand dune overhanging the little dell in which... | |
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The chiefs son asked me if I would like to see the old buffalo pound, in which they had been entrapping buffalo during the past week. With a ready compliance I accompanied the guide to a little valley between sand hills, through a lane of branches of... 