The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent, and Colonel U.S.A.Grosset & Dunlap, 1889 - 260 頁 Not only a biography of one of America's true heroes, this is an excellent tool for teaching American history and geography. |
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
animals Apaches arrived attack beaver became began Bent's Bent's Fort bison Blackfeet Blackfoot brave camp Captain Carson CHAPTER charge command companions danger daring dashed distance E. D. E. N. Southworth encamped enemies engaged expedition explorers feet fight fire followed force Fort Garland Fort Hall Fort Laramie forward Fremont friends galloped GROSSET & DUNLAP Grosset & Dunlap's ground halt head horses hostile Hudson Bay hundred hunters hunting Indians joined journey Kearney killed Kit Carson knew lake Laramie learned Lieutenant Lieutenant Beale Mexican Mexico miles Missouri mountains mounted mules never night once party passed peltries prairie pursuit pushed ranche reached rifle River rocks rode Santa Fé savage scouts sent sentinel shot Shunan sight skill snow spring steed story stream Sutter's Fort Taos thieves tion took track trail trappers trapping trees tribe Utah valley visited warriors
熱門章節
第 122 頁 - I had brought for the purpose, as now the use of our toes became necessary to a further advance, I availed myself of a sort of comb of the mountain, which stood against the wall like a buttress, and which the wind and the solar radiation, joined to the steepness of the smooth rock, had kept almost entirely free from snow. Up this I made my way rapidly. Our cautious method of advancing in the outset had spared my strength; and, with the exception of a slight disposition to headache, [ felt no remains...
第 136 頁 - Springs were numerous; but, as far as we could ascertain, were entirely confined to that locality in the bottom. In the bed of the river, in front, for a space of several hundred yards, they were very abundant; the effervescing gas rising up and agitating the water in countless bubbling columns. In the vicinity round about were numerous springs of an entirely different and equally marked mineral character.
第 160 頁 - We continued down the south face of the mountain ; our road leading over dry ground, we were able to avoid the snow almost entirely. In the course of the morning, we struck a footpath, which we were generally able to keep ; and the ground was soft to our animals' feet, being sandy or covered with mould.
第 154 頁 - In the evening I received a message from Mr. Fitzpatrick, acquainting me with the utter failure of his attempt to get our mules and horses over the snow — the...
第 155 頁 - We continued to labor on the road ; and in the course of the day had the satisfaction to see the people working down the face of the opposite hill, about three miles distant. During the morning we had the pleasure of a visit from Mr. Fitzpatrick, with the information that all was going on well. A party of Indians had passed on show shoes, who said they were going to the western side of the mountain after fish.
第 146 頁 - ... began to break heavily on the shore, making our island tremble. I had not expected in our inland journey to hear the roar of an ocean surf; and the strangeness of our situation, and the excitement we felt in the associated interests of the place, made this one of the most interesting nights I remember during our long expedition.
第 116 頁 - At a little distance, Kit was on the ground, engaged in tying his horse to the horns of a cow which he was preparing to cut up. Among the scattered bands, at some distance below, I caught a glimpse of Maxwell; and while I was looking, a light wreath of white smoke curled away from his gun, from which I was too far to hear the report.
第 121 頁 - At intervals we reached places where a number of springs gushed from the rocks, and about 1,800 feet above the lakes came to the snow line. From this point our progress was uninterrupted climbing. Hitherto I had worn a pair of thick moccasins, with soles of...
第 140 頁 - ... constantly at the bellows, to keep them sufficiently full of air to support the boat. Although we had made a very early start, we loitered so much on the way — stopping every now and then, and floating silently along, to get a shot at a goose or a duck — that it was late in the day when we reached the outlet.
第 159 頁 - Carson had entered the valley along the southern side of the bay, and remembered perfectly to have crossed the mouth of a very large stream, which they had been obliged to raft; but the country then was so entirely covered with water from snow and rain that he had been able to form no correct impression of watercourses.