Border Tales: Around the Camp Fire, in the Rocky MountainsE.P. Dutton, 1878 - 243 pagina's |
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Border Tales Around the Camp Fire, in the Rocky Mountains Edmund Bostwick Tuttle Volledige weergave - 1878 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Alamo Allen animal bear beasts began Black-tail deer blood body Bond Bostwick brave buffalo Buren cabin called camp captain Cayuga Cayuga Lake CHAPTER chief command Crockett danger darkey DAVY CROCKETT day-dawn dead Diedrich enemy Estelle Estelle's father eyes face feet fell fellow fight fire forest Fort Hill fortress French garrison ground hand head heard Hill horse hunting Illustrated Indians Jones killed knew Lake Le Fort leave lives look massa medicine medicine men Mexican miles Mohawk river morning mule native never night old sailor once Onondaga Hill Owasco Owasco Lake party prisoners replied river rushed Sambo San Antonio Santa Anna savages scalps seen Serapis sight sinch slain sleep soldiers soon story suddenly tell tent Texas tomahawk Travis tree tribes twin brothers Valliet vessel Walker wild wounded yells young
Populaire passages
Pagina 16 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance.
Pagina 132 - The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Pagina 169 - God, in his wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; looking for the general Resurrection in the last, day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ...
Pagina 242 - PS The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves. TRAVIS.
Pagina 16 - I appeal to any white man to say, if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if he ever came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Pagina 115 - YE gentlemen and ladies fair, Who grace this famous city, Just listen if you've time to spare, While I rehearse a ditty; And for the opportunity Conceive yourselves quite lucky, For 'tis not often that you see A hunter from Kentucky. Oh Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky!
Pagina 169 - We therefore commit his Body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the Resurrection of the Body when the Sea shall give up her dead...
Pagina 239 - The action, according to Santa Anna's report, lasted thirty minutes. It was certainly short ; and possibly no longer space passed between the moment the enemy fronted the breach and that when resistance died out. Some of the incidents which have to be related separately no doubt occurred simultaneously, and occupied very little time. " The account of the assault which Yoakum and others have adopted as authentic, is evidently one which popular tradition has based on conjecture.