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adventures alarm American Fur Company Arapooish arrived band banks Bannecks beautiful beaver Bighorn Blackfeet Blackfoot boat braves buffalo 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 forward free trappers Fur Company fur trade Green River valley halt hand heart hills horses Hudson's Bay Company hunters Indians journey kind Kosato length lodge Malade River meat miles morning neighborhood Nez Percés night old chief party passed peltries Pierre's Hole plain Portneuf prairies precipices proceeded ravines reached region rendezvous rifle rival rocks Rocky Mountains route Salmon River savage scene scouts Shoshonie skins smoke Snake River snow soon spirit stream Sublette supplies tain tion took trade trail trapping travellers tribe turned village warriors wild wilderness William Sublette Wind River Mountains winter wounded Wyeth
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Page 180 - ... beads, and glittering trinkets, were bought at any price, and scores run up without any thought how they were ever to be rubbed off. The free trappers, especially, were extravagant in their purchases. For a free mountaineer to pause at a paltry consideration of dollars and cents, in the attainment of any object that might strike his MAD WOLVES. 231 fancy, would stamp him with the mark of the beast in the estimation of his comrades.