Wild life in the far west - personal adventures of a border mountain man (1874) (14781313455)

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Title: Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man

Year: 1874 (1870s)

Authors: Hobbs, James, b. 1819

Subjects: Hobbs, James, b. 1819 Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Mexican War, 1846-1848 Southwest, New -- Description and travel Mexico -- History European intervention, 1861-1867

Publisher: Hartford : Wiley, Waterman & Eaton

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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deon the disposition of John and myself; but it was nec-essarily adjourned till the next morning, because OldWolf had drank too much of our brandy and talkedhimself to sleep in the midst of the council, and wasnot competent to hear the report of our captors. Asthe result of the deliberations, next day, the captive,Henry, was instructed to inform us that if we were notTexans and would be good and not run away, theywould not kill us but let us stay with them. They,however, pointed to some dried scalps and informed usthat about three weeks before, three Mexicans, capturedby them and set to mind their stock, had attempted toescape. They were pursued with the intention of bring-ing them back, but it was finally decided, after having along chase, to bring only their scalps, and they shouldfeel compelled to do the same by us under similar cir-cumstances. These remarks were made with suchgrave earnestness that we decided our best course wasto keep quiet and stay with the Indians, for it would

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C0MANCIIE9. 27 be madness for such boys as we were, with no knowl-edge of tlie country, to attempt to reach Fort Bent orto return to Missouri. John was particuhirly faithful. I went out with theIndians, and hunted, and learned to catch trout withtheir bone fish-hooks. But John never stirred fromcamp, for he was afraid of mistakes; he might be.going from camp with the best intention to return, andlose his scalp, as the Mexicans did. Our hosts did not like John very well, though theyregarded me very favorably. The Comanches are themost powerful of all the tribes of North AmericanIndians. Their dress differs but little from that of theShawnees, a description of which has already beengiven, — the men wearing a buckskin hunting-shirtreaching to the waist, buckskin pants so made as torequire a breech-cloth, as the pants do not cover thesmall of the back, and moccasins. The women wear abackskin petticoat and dress, reaching to the knee,pants like the men, and buckskin moccasins. Thedress iwildlifefarwest00hobb

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