The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 10G. P. Putnam, 1853 |
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American Fur Company antelope band banks Bannecks beautiful beaver Bighorn Blackfeet Blackfoot boat braves buffalo bull bull boat caches camp Captain Bonneville Captain Bonneville's Columbia companions comrades course Crow country danger deep defile distance encamped enemy expedition eyes feet fire Flatheads Fort Cass free trappers Fur Company Green River Green River valley half-breeds hand head waters heart hills horses Hudson's Bay Company hunters hunting Indian journey kind laso length lodge miles morning mounted neighborhood Nez Percé language Nez Percés night old chief party passed peltries plain Portneuf prairies precipices proceeded ravines reached region rendezvous repast rifle rocks Rocky Mountains round route saddle Salmon River savage scouts Shoshonies skin Skynses smoke Snake River snow soon spirit stream Sublette supplies tain took trade trail trap travellers tribe turned village voyagers warriors wild wilderness William Sublette Wind River Wind River Mountains winter Wyeth
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Page 101 - Simply to call these people religious," says he, " would convey but a faint idea of the deep hue of piety and devotion which pervades their whole conduct. Their honesty is immaculate, and their purity of purpose, and their observance of the rites of their religion, are most uniform and remarkable. They are, certainly, more like a nation of saints than a horde of savages.
Page 190 - The Crow country is exactly in the right place. It has snowy mountains and sunny plains ; all kinds of climates and good things for every season. When the summer heats scorch the prairies, you can draw up under the mountains, where the air is sweet and cool, the grass fresh, and the bright streams come tumbling out of the snow-banks.
Page 27 - A man who bestrides a horse, must be essentially different from a man who cowers in a canoe. We find them, accordingly, hardy, lithe, vigorous and active; extravagant in word, and thought, and deed; heedless of hardship; daring of danger; prodigal of the present, and thoughtless of the future.
Page 217 - After much toil, he reached the summit of a lofty cliff, but it was only to behold gigantic peaks rising all around, and towering far into the snowy regions of the atmosphere.
Page 28 - ... and he forgets all dangers and defies all difficulties. At times, he may be seen with his traps on his shoulder, buffeting his way across rapid streams, amidst floating blocks of ice : at other times, he is to be found with his traps swung on his back clambering the most rugged mountains, scaling or descending the most frightful precipices, searching, by routes inaccessible to the horse, and never before trodden by white man, for springs and lakes unknown to his comrades, and where he may meet...