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diff --git a/46328-0.txt b/46328-0.txt index 1ad9a50..d3e1ed8 100644 --- a/46328-0.txt +++ b/46328-0.txt @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ the scenes and characters portrayed. He had scoured the continent from Canada to Mexico, from the Mississippi to the Pacific coast. He had associated with many redoubtable characters of the old West--with men like Kit Carson, Bill Williams, the Bents, the Sublettes, Joe Meek, St. -Vrain, Fitzpatrick, Killbuck, and La Bonté. Pie was equally at home +Vrain, Fitzpatrick, Killbuck, and La Bonté. He was equally at home among Americans, Canadians, Creoles, Mexicans, Spanish Californians, and Indians. Each of these picturesque types he has shown to the life. No narrative or formal history of that time has described the pioneers of diff --git a/46328-h/46328-h.htm b/46328-h/46328-h.htm index d33a63b..6454eba 100644 --- a/46328-h/46328-h.htm +++ b/46328-h/46328-h.htm @@ -1,17 +1,13 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> - -<!DOCTYPE html - PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > - -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> <title> - In the Old West, by George Frederick Ruxton + In the Old West | Project Gutenberg </title> - <style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"> + <style> - body { margin:5%; background:#faebd0; text-align:justify} + body { margin:5%; text-align:justify} P { text-indent: 1em; margin-top: .25em; margin-bottom: .25em; } H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%; } hr { width: 50%; text-align: center;} @@ -46,7 +42,7 @@ <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 46328 ***</div> <div style="height: 8em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h1> IN THE OLD WEST @@ -64,11 +60,11 @@ Copyright 1915, Outing Publishing Company </h5> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> <p> <b>CONTENTS</b> @@ -77,7 +73,7 @@ <a href="#link2H_INTR"> INTRODUCTION </a> </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="toc"> <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> <b>IN THE OLD WEST</b> </a> @@ -110,14 +106,14 @@ <a href="#link2HCH0009"> CHAPTER IX </a> </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_INTR" id="link2H_INTR"> </a> + <a id="link2H_INTR"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> INTRODUCTION @@ -290,13 +286,13 @@ from the Mississippi to the Pacific coast. He had associated with many redoubtable characters of the old West—with men like Kit Carson, Bill Williams, the Bents, the Sublettes, Joe Meek, St. Vrain, Fitzpatrick, - Killbuck, and La Bonté. Pie was equally at home among Americans, + Killbuck, and La Bonté. He was equally at home among Americans, Canadians, Creoles, Mexicans, Spanish Californians, and Indians. Each of these picturesque types he has shown to the life. No narrative or formal history of that time has described the pioneers of the Far West with such actual truth and fidelity. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Here published as "In the Old West." </pre> <p> @@ -342,7 +338,7 @@ "I myself, with three trappers, cleared a fandango at Taos, armed only with bowie-knives—some score Mexicans, at least, being in the room. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * In accordance with this suggestion, the name was changed to Brand. The mountaineers, it seems, are more sensitive to type than to tomahawks; and poor Ruxton, who always @@ -609,27 +605,27 @@ Horace Kephart. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0002"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> IN THE OLD WEST </h2> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0001" id="link2HCH0001"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0001"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER I @@ -691,7 +687,7 @@ Mexican country—twenty thunderin' big Pittsburgh wagons; and the way his Santa Fé boys took in the liquor beat all—eh, Bill?" </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Killed, adapted from the Indian figurative language ** Died. @@ -724,7 +720,7 @@ be agin, now he's gone under; but St. Vrain's 'pretty much of a gentleman,' too; if he ain't, I'll be dog-gone—eh, Bill?" </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The Mexicans are called "Spaniards" or "Greasers" (from their greasy appearance) by the Western people. @@ -774,7 +770,7 @@ now; I've trapped in heav'n, in airth, and h——; and scalp my old head, marm, but I've seen a putrefied forest.' </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Meaning—if that's what you mean. The "stick" is tied to the beaver-trap by a string, and, floating on the water, points out its position, should a beaver have carried it @@ -798,7 +794,7 @@ wagh! Our animals was like to die when they see the green grass, and we all sung out, "Hurraw for summer doins." </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Scalped. ** Soles made of buffalo hide. @@ -869,7 +865,7 @@ (him as trapped on Heeley that time) told me, the other day, as he saw an English gun on Arkansa last winter as beat all off hand. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The Hudson's Bay Company, having amalgamated with the American North-West Company, is known by the name "North- West" to the southern trappers. Their employés usually wear @@ -938,7 +934,7 @@ there was Dick Somes ramming a ball down his gun like mad, and the Injuns flinging their arrows at him pretty smart, I tell you. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Antelope are frequently called "goats" by the mountaineers. </pre> @@ -1142,7 +1138,7 @@ and hyar's a coon knows whar to lay his hand on a dozen pack right handy, and then he'll take the Taos trail, wagh!" </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * An Indian is always "a heap" hungry or thirsty—loves "a heap"—is "a heap" brave; in fact, "a heap" is tantamount to very much. @@ -1360,7 +1356,7 @@ descried at their very feet the Indian camp, with their own stolen cavallada feeding quietly round. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The old name of South Park, Colorado. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -1377,7 +1373,7 @@ till they come back from the Bayou,—and maybe they'll leave half-a-dozen soldiers * with'em." </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The young untried warriors of the Indians are thus called. </pre> <p> @@ -1441,7 +1437,7 @@ from a spear stuck in the ground; and a few guns in ornamented covers of buckskin were added to some of the equipments. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * There is a great difference between an Indian's fire and a white's. The former places the ends of logs to burn gradually; the latter, the center, besides making such a @@ -1706,7 +1702,7 @@ wintered there for many successive years; whilst the Rapahos seldom visit it unless on war expeditions against the Yutas. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Utahs, Arapahoes, Sioux, and Cheyennes. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -1765,14 +1761,14 @@ roomy lodge, left them to the repose they so much needed. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0002" id="link2HCH0002"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0002"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER II @@ -1934,7 +1930,7 @@ as soon as he observed they were but two; two to one in mountain calculation being scarcely considered odds, if red skin to white. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Evidently Ruxton himself. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -2147,7 +2143,7 @@ ignites, and readily kindles the dry sticks forming the foundation of the fire. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * A pithy substance found in dead trees. </pre> <p> @@ -2227,7 +2223,7 @@ said, whether his rifle had hind-sights or not. He felt bad, that was a fact; but what ailed him he didn't know." </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The name of this trapper is perpetuated in La Bonté Creek, which enters the Platte River 66 miles above the mouth of the Laramie, on the old Oregon trail. (Ed.) @@ -2389,14 +2385,14 @@ on, and he did not return. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0003" id="link2HCH0003"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0003"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER III @@ -2430,7 +2426,7 @@ sign of commerce being the unwieldy bateaux of the Indian traders, laden with peltries from the distant regions of the Platte and Upper Missouri. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * He means as an American city. St. Louis was founded by the French in 1764; transferred to the United States in 1804. (Ed.) 1804. (Ed.) @@ -2446,7 +2442,7 @@ beaver-skins and buffalo-robes collected during the season at the different trading-posts in the Far West. * </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Written in 1848. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -2521,7 +2517,7 @@ choreographic art as would make the shade of Gallini quake and gibber in his pumps. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Empty Pocket: A humorous nickname that the old French bestowed upon Carondelet. (Ed.) </pre> @@ -2535,7 +2531,7 @@ well-known Indian chant:— </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="indent15"> Hi—Hi—Hi—Hi @@ -2556,7 +2552,7 @@ &c., &c., &c. </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p> and polishes off the high notes with a whoop which makes the old wooden @@ -2645,7 +2641,7 @@ pack-saddles, <i>apishamores</i>, * and lariats, and the next day, with Luke, "put out" for Platte. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Saddle-blanket made of buffalo-calf skin. </pre> <p> @@ -2777,7 +2773,7 @@ but they easily distinguish the determined mountaineer from the incautious greenhorn, and think it better to let the former alone. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Wakarusa. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -3144,7 +3140,7 @@ peculiar make of his moccasins, and the way in which his face was daubed with paint. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Yanktons. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -3176,7 +3172,7 @@ were still shorter, and their rifles longer. The Yanka-taus were dogs and squaws, and the Long-knives spat upon them." </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The French Canadians are called wah-keitcha—"bad medicine"—by the Indians, who account them treacherous and vindictive, and at the same time less daring than the @@ -3323,14 +3319,14 @@ demons rather than of men. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0004" id="link2HCH0004"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0004"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER IV @@ -3356,7 +3352,7 @@ Luke placed a little stick, which he first dipped into a mysterious-looking phial containing his "medicine." * </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * A substance obtained from a gland in the scrotum of the beaver, and used to attract that animal to the trap. </pre> @@ -3432,7 +3428,7 @@ equitable value; and soon the trade opened, and the encampment assumed a busy appearance. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The Hudson's Bay Company is so called by the American trappers. </pre> @@ -3508,7 +3504,7 @@ him onest, an' fout him to clawin' away to Eustis; * and if I draws my knife again on such varmint, I'll raise his hair, as sure as shootin'." </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * A small lake near the head-waters of the Yellow Stone, near which are some curious thermal springs of ink-black water. @@ -3707,7 +3703,7 @@ a feed, if no game was seen before they put out of camp on the morrow; and meat was meat, anyhow they fixed it." </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Also known as Furey. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -3875,7 +3871,7 @@ trappers, examined with childlike curiosity, and thrown carelessly aside. * </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The Aztecs are supposed to have built this city during their migration to the south: there is little doubt, however, but that the region extending from the Gila to the @@ -4151,7 +4147,7 @@ likewise soon made <i>dog</i> of, and thrust into the boiling kettle with the rest. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Creoles of St. Louis, and French Canadians. </pre> <p> @@ -4180,7 +4176,7 @@ being the flesh of <i>panthers</i>, which surpasses every other, and all put together. * </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The excellence of panther meat is praised by Hart Merriam in his "Mammals of the Adirondacks." (Ed.) </pre> @@ -4219,7 +4215,7 @@ fort of the American Fur Company, stripping it of everything it contained, and roasting the trader himself over his own fire. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * "On the prairie" is the Indian term for a free gift. </pre> <p> @@ -4258,7 +4254,7 @@ wrongs they endure at the hands of their supplanters in the lands of their fathers. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * This is an exaggeration. The laws against sale of liquor to the Indians were strict, and the chief difficulty of the fur companies was to evade Government agents who searched @@ -4378,7 +4374,7 @@ sometimes scamper off bodily, with their long poles trailing after them, pursued by the yelling and half-frantic squaws. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Travois. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -4458,7 +4454,7 @@ its use, and produces a heaviness sometimes approaching stupefaction, altogether different from the soothing effects of tobacco. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Red osier dogwood. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -4561,14 +4557,14 @@ penetrated. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0005" id="link2HCH0005"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0005"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER V @@ -4606,13 +4602,13 @@ change, of life and fortune, </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="indent15"> "On revient toujours à ses premiers amours." </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p> Often and often, as La Bonté sat cross-legged before his solitary @@ -4778,7 +4774,7 @@ sooner had he laid the apishamore smoothly on the chafed skin, than a wriggle of the animal shook it off. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Hide—from cacher. </pre> <p> @@ -5003,7 +4999,7 @@ his saddle-horn, dug his ponderous rowels into the lank sides of his beast, and, without a word, struck up the bluff and disappeared. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Carondelet, creole. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -5228,7 +5224,7 @@ in; and along the fleece thar's meat yet, and maybe my old hump-ribs has picking on'em." </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Carrion. </pre> <p> @@ -5327,14 +5323,14 @@ enemies. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0006" id="link2HCH0006"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0006"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER VI @@ -5361,7 +5357,7 @@ between the frontiers of the United States and the still distant goal of their long and perilous journey. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Independence Rock. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -5813,7 +5809,7 @@ thirteen scalps dangling from their rifles, in payment for the loss of their unfortunate companion. * </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * In Frémont's expedition to California, on a somewhat similar occasion, two mountaineers—one the celebrated Kit Carson, the other a St. Louis Frenchman named Godey, and @@ -5936,7 +5932,7 @@ off, and made his way to the Mission without delay, conveying the startling intelligence that a thousand Americans were upon them. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The Mexicans call the Indians living near the Missions and engaged in agriculture, mansos, or mansitos, "tame." </pre> @@ -6038,7 +6034,7 @@ years in inducting the savage people to the holy faith. Truly a pious work, and pleasing to God!" * </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * From a manuscript obtained in Santa Fé of New Mexico, describing the labors of the missionaries Fray Augustin Ruiz, Venabides, and Marcos, in the year 1585. @@ -6158,14 +6154,14 @@ living, at their own choice, upon the flesh of mule, or ox, or horse. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0007" id="link2HCH0007"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0007"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER VII @@ -6332,7 +6328,7 @@ to bestow a kingdom for a kiss, as ancient ballads tell. </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="indent15"> "Duena de la negra toca, @@ -6353,7 +6349,7 @@ Mil cielos, si fueran mil." </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p> Come of such poor stock, and reared on tobacco-smoke and <i>gazpacho</i>, @@ -6405,7 +6401,7 @@ to oppose these white barbarians it behoves us to make every preparation of defense." * </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * From the report to the Governor of California by the Head of the Mission, in reference to the attacks by the American mountaineers. @@ -7063,7 +7059,7 @@ moreover, was celebrated from Long's Peak to the Cumbres Espanolâs for slapjacks and pumpkin pies. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Sometimes called Fort William, from one of the two Bent brothers who founded it in 1829. It was destroyed in 1852. (Ed.) @@ -7127,14 +7123,14 @@ Stripes which float above the walls. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0008" id="link2HCH0008"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0008"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER VIII @@ -7171,7 +7167,7 @@ There was young Dick Wooton, * who was "some" for his inches, being six feet six, and as straight and strong as the barrel of his long rifle. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Still living about 1898 in Colorado. (Ed.) </pre> <p> @@ -7206,7 +7202,7 @@ Boonlick, Missouri State, and a credit to the "diggins" that gave him birth. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Since the time of which we speak, Kit Carson has distinguished himself in guiding the several U. S. exploring expeditions under Frémont across the Rocky Mountains, and to @@ -7317,7 +7313,7 @@ scalp-knife, ominous of the company he is in, and some have pistols sticking in their belts. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The word fandango, in New Mexico, is not applied to the peculiar dance known in Spain by that name, but designates a ball or dancing meeting. @@ -7358,7 +7354,7 @@ he were a child, lifts him over his head, and dashes him with the force of a giant against the wall. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * A nickname for the idle fellows hanging about a Mexican town, translated into "Greasers" by the Americans. @@ -7393,7 +7389,7 @@ mountaineer was no baby blow, and seldom failed to strike home—up to the "Green River" * on the blade. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * The knives used by the hunters and trappers are manufactured at the "Green River" works, and have that name stamped upon the blade. Hence the mountain term for doing @@ -7499,7 +7495,7 @@ out by the Yutas in the Bayou Salade. Bad was the best; and after she was gone under I tried no more. </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> * Always alluding to Mexicans, who are invariably called Spaniards by the Western Americans. </pre> @@ -7582,14 +7578,14 @@ transcribe for the benefit of the reader. </p> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2HCH0009" id="link2HCH0009"> </a> + <a id="link2HCH0009"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CHAPTER IX @@ -8009,7 +8005,7 @@ a dismal nasal tone,— </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p class="indent15"> "Down the center—hands across, @@ -8027,7 +8023,7 @@ Every one of you—<i>hump it</i>." </p> <p> - <br /> + <br > </p> <p> The last words being the signal that all should clap the steam on, which @@ -8713,9 +8709,10 @@ THE END </h3> <div style="height: 6em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 46328 ***</div> </body> </html> + |