The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians

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Harper & Brothers, 1856 - 537 Seiten
 

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XXXI
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XXXIV
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Seite 111 - ... she desired them (says Mr. Reece) to be seated round her bed ; when, spending a few minutes in adjusting the bed-clothes with seeming attention, and placing before her a white handkerchief, she thus addressed them, as nearly as I can recollect, in the following words : ' My friends, some of you have known me nearly twenty-five years, and all of you not less than twenty ; when you have heard me speak of my prophecies, you have sometimes heard me say that I doubted my inspiration. But at the same...
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Seite 516 - I at once saw, would afford the best wagon-road into the American Valley approaching from the eastward, and I imparted my views to three of my companions in whose judgment I placed the most confidence. They thought highly of the discovery, and even proposed to associate with me in opening the road. We also found gold, but not in sufficient quantity to warrant our working it ; and, furthermore, the ground was too wet, to admit of our prospecting to any advantage. On my return to the American Valley,...
Seite 314 - Why so slow ? — do you wait till I shrink from the pain ? No — the son of Alknomook will never complain. Remember the wood where in ambush we lay, And the scalps which we bore from your nation away : Now the flame rises fast, you exult in my pain; But the son of Alknomook can never complain.

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