Ranch Life and the Hunting-trailCentury Company, 1888 - 186 หน้า |
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... venison or broiled antelope steaks , perhaps roast and fried prairie chickens , with eggs , butter , wild plums , and tea or coffee . The afternoon's tasks are usually much the same as the morning's , but this time is often spent in ...
... venison or broiled antelope steaks , perhaps roast and fried prairie chickens , with eggs , butter , wild plums , and tea or coffee . The afternoon's tasks are usually much the same as the morning's , but this time is often spent in ...
หน้า 83
... venison with you . when threatened by starvation in the wilderness . One hunter may be a dark - browed , evil - eyed ruffian , ready to kill cattle or run off horses with- out hesitation , who if game fails will at once , in Western ...
... venison with you . when threatened by starvation in the wilderness . One hunter may be a dark - browed , evil - eyed ruffian , ready to kill cattle or run off horses with- out hesitation , who if game fails will at once , in Western ...
หน้า 131
... venison stored away in the fall lasts us through the bitter weather , as well as through the even less attractive period covering the first weeks of spring . At that time we go out as little as possible . The roads are mere morasses ...
... venison stored away in the fall lasts us through the bitter weather , as well as through the even less attractive period covering the first weeks of spring . At that time we go out as little as possible . The roads are mere morasses ...
หน้า 133
... venison . In the fall the prairie fires ravage the land , for at the close of sum- mer the matted , sun - dried grass burns like tinder , and the fires are some- times so numerous as to cover whole counties beneath a pall of smoke ...
... venison . In the fall the prairie fires ravage the land , for at the close of sum- mer the matted , sun - dried grass burns like tinder , and the fires are some- times so numerous as to cover whole counties beneath a pall of smoke ...
หน้า 138
... venison steaks as they sizzled in the frying - pan . The morning after this adventure I shot an antelope before breakfast . We had just risen , and while sitting round the smoldering coals , listen- A PRONG - HORN BUCK VISITS CAMP . ing ...
... venison steaks as they sizzled in the frying - pan . The morning after this adventure I shot an antelope before breakfast . We had just risen , and while sitting round the smoldering coals , listen- A PRONG - HORN BUCK VISITS CAMP . ing ...
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หน้า 150 - NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.
หน้า 59 - Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough,
หน้า 55 - A cowboy will not submit tamely to an insult, and is ever ready to avenge his own wrongs ; nor has he an overwrought fear of shedding blood. He possesses, in fact, few of the emasculated, milk-and-water moralities admired by the pseudo-philanthropists ; but he does possess, to a very high degree, the stern, manly qualities that are invaluable to a nation.
หน้า 38 - Grey, rain-blear'd statues, overpeer The sunny Waste. They see the Ferry On the broad, clay-laden Lone Chorasmian stream: thereon With snort and strain, Two...
หน้า 117 - Not see? because of night perhaps? why, day Came back again for that! before it left, The dying sunset kindled through a cleft: The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay, Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay, "Now stab and end the creature to the heft!
หน้า 10 - They are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers ; nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same breath.
หน้า 22 - HUNTING-TRAIL sooner or later there comes a winter which means ruin to the ranches that have too many cattle on them ; and in our country, which is even now getting crowded, it is merely a question of time as to when a winter will come that will understock the ranges by the summary process of killing off about half of all the cattle throughout the North-west...
หน้า 38 - His wheel'd house at noon. He tethers his beast down, and makes his meal — Mares' milk, and bread Baked on the embers ; — all around The boundless, waving grass-plains stretch, thick-starr'd With saffron and the yellow hollyhock And flag-leaved iris-flowers.