Rocky Mountain life; or, Startling scenes and perilous adventures in the far West, during an expedition of three years (1857) (14591028767)

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Title: Rocky Mountain life; or, Startling scenes and perilous adventures in the far West, during an expedition of three years
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
Subjects: Hunting -- United States Rocky Mountains West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Wentworth and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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. >-- ^ ^ h ,^%S■/ Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by WENTWORTII & COMPANY, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. «• ,» . . . I . , » * i • . •■ » • , . • < • • , - . PRE EAC E. The following work was written immediately afterthe author had returned from the perilous and event-ful expedition which is here narrated. The intenseinterest which every citizen of the Union feels inrelation to that vast region of our country lyingbetween the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean, will,it is believed, render the publication of a volumelike this of more than usual importance at the presenttime. The lofty cliifs of the Rocky Mountains aresoon to echo to the tread of advancing civilization, assymbolized in the Pacific railway, which will, in a fewyears, speed the iron horse and his living freightfrom Boston to San Francisco, forming a bond ofsocial and commercial intercourse across the con-tinent. M194955
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CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Objects of a proposed excursion. Primary plans and movements. A Digression,Rendezvous for Oregon emigrants and Santa Fe traders. Sensations on afiret visit to the border Prairies. Frontier Indians. 29 CHAPTER II. Preparations for leaving. Scenes at Ca.n^.p. Things as they appeared. Simpli-city of mountaineers. Sleep in the open air. Character, habits, and costumeof mountaineers. Heterogeneous ingredients of Compaiiy. The command-ant. En route. Comical exhibition and adventure with a Spanish compa-ny. Grouse. Elm Grove. A storm. Santa Fe traders. Indian battle. 34 CHAPTER III. The Pottowatomies. Crossing the Wakarouslia. Adventure at t!ie Springs.The Caw chief. Kansas river and Indians. Pleading for wlii^key. Hick-ory timber. Pniirie tea. Scenes at the N. Fork of Blue. Wild honey.Return party. iMountaineers in iaiifornia. y^dventure with a biuFah). In-dian atrocities. (.i:iUor and the Fur Trade. Strict guard. Hi^h prices. 45 CHAPTER iV. Country from the frontiers t