The Bozeman Trail: PrefaceArthur H. Clark Company, 1922 - Indians of North America |
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Page 22 - To enterprising young men. The subscriber wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri river to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years.
Page 93 - ... ride to save our lives. We do not believe what you have said, and will not listen to you. Whatever a chief among us tells his soldiers to do, is done. We are the soldiers of the great chief, your father. He has told us to come here and see this country, and all the Indians, his children. Why should we not go ? Before...
Page 43 - What use have we for such a country? Mr President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer to Boston than it now is.
Page 292 - Support the wood train, relieve it, and report to me. Do not engage or pursue Indians at its expense; under no circumstances pursue over Lodge Trail Ridge.
Page 92 - It is on the left bank, on a rising ground some twenty-five feet above the water; and its lofty walls whitewashed and picketed, with the large bastions at the angles, gave it quite an imposing appearance in the uncertain light of evening. A cluster of lodges, which the language told us belonged to Sioux Indians, was pitched under the walls...
Page 43 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs?
Page 318 - Carrington is very plausible — an energetic, industrious man in garrison, but it is too evident that he has not maintained discipline, and that his officers have no confidence in him. Some of his acts officially reported, such as shelling woods, when Indians had appeared on. a previous day, may have by this time settled his appreciation by Indians.
Page 101 - Within, the fort is divided by a partition: on one side is the square area, surrounded by the store-rooms, offices, and apartments of the inmates ; on the other is the corral, a narrow place, encompassed by the high clay walls, where at night, or in presence of dangerous Indians, the horses and mules of the fort are crowded for safe keeping.