Leonard's Narrative: Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836; Reprinted from the Rare Original of 1839Burrows Brothers Company, 1904 - 317 páginas |
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adventures American Fur Company animals appeared arrived Ashley bear beaver skins Blackfeet Bonneville buffaloe California camp Capt Captain Walker chief Columbia river commenced continued crossed Crow nation Crows discovered distance encamped expedition feet fire Fitzpatrick Flatheads free trappers fur-trade grass Green River grizzly bear ground horses Hudson Bay Company hundred hunt hunters Indians Joe Meek journey killed Laramie River latter Leonard Louis manner meat Meek miles mission Missouri Missouri River Monterey morning moun Mountain Fur Company mouth mules natives Nez Percés Nidever night Northwest Company Oregon party passed Pierre's Hole plain Platte prairies reached remained rendezvous Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain Fur route Salt Lake Santa savages scarcely side Smith Snake River snow soon Spaniards started stream Sublette tain thing timber tion took trade trappers trapping travelling tribe valley West whites wild winter wounded Wyeth
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Página 240 - The sufferings of the travellers among these savage mountains were extreme : for a part of the time they were nearly starved ; at length, they made their way through them, and came down upon the plains of New California, a fertile region extending along the coast, with magnificent forests, verdant savannas, and prairies that look like stately parks. Here they found deer and other game in abundance, and indemnified themselves for past famine.
Página 106 - I came with one eye partly opened, for more light for my people, who sit in darkness. I go back with both eyes closed. How can I go back blind, to my blind people?
Página 11 - ... a single track of a beaver meet his eye, 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...
Página 146 - Walker, was ordered to steer through an unknown country, towards the Pacific, and if he did not find beaver, he should return to the Great SL in the following summer.
Página 234 - This desert which had presented such an insurmountable barrier to our route, is bounded on the east by the Rocky mountains, on the west by the Calafornia mountain, on the North by the Columbia river, and on the south by the Red, or Colorado river.
Página 106 - ... many enemies and strange lands, that I might carry back much to them. I go back with both arms broken and empty.
Página 106 - You make my feet heavy with burdens of gifts, and my moccasins will grow old in carrying them, but the Book is not among them. When I tell my poor, blind people, after one more snow, in the big council, that I did not bring the Book...
Página 189 - ... which, even at this day, more resemble military forts to resist invasion, than trading stations. Our government should be vigilant. She should assert her claim by taking possession of the whole territory as soon as possible — for we have good reason to suppose that the territory west of the mountain will some day be equally as important to the nation as that on the east* , The next day Capt. Baggshaw took leave of us and started out on his trading expedition — appointing Monterey as the point...
Página 157 - At this place, all the branches of this stream is collected from the mountain into the main channel, which forms quite a large stream; and to which we gave the name of Barren River*— a name which we thought would be quite appropriate, as the country, natives and every thing belonging to it, justly deserves the name.— You may travel for many days on the banks of this river, without finding a stick large enough to make a walking cane.— While we were on its margin, we were compelled to do without...
Página 156 - So eager were they to possess themselves of our traps, that we were forced to quit trapping in this vicinity and make for some other quarter. The great annoyance we sustained in this respect greatly displeased some of our men, and they were for taking vengeance before we left the country — but this was not the disposition of Captain Walker.