Ranch Life and the Hunting-trailCentury Company, 1896 - 186 หน้า A record of what President Theodore Roosevelt saw, heard, and did after purchasing Elkhorn Ranch in North Dakota and living in the West. |
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animals antelope argali Bad Lands band beasts Big Horn Mountains big-horn BIG-HORN SHEEP black-footed ferret boat bottom brand break broken bronco buck buttes calves camp cattle cliff cold corral coulée course cowboys danger dark deep deer driven fall feet fight fire follow FREDERIC REMINGTON gallop grass hard head herd hills horns horses hundred yards hunters hunting Indians keep Killdeer Mountains killed lariat ledge Little Missouri look miles Missouri Montana morning mountain sheep night occasionally once outfit plains plateaus plenty ponies prairie quicksand ranch house ranchman range ravines Remington rider riding rifle river rope rough round round-up saddle saddle-band shooting shot side snow sometimes soon spring steep steer stockmen stretch teamster trail turned usually valley venison wagon walk watch weather WHITE GOAT white-tail deer wild wind winter woods young bucks
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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 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 55 - There is a high regard for truthfulness and keeping one's word, intense contempt for any kind of hypocrisy, and a hearty dislike for a man who shirks his work. Many of the men gamble and drink, but many do neither; and the conversation is not worse than in most bodies composed wholly of male human beings. 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.
หน้า 120 - ... numbed by it, until at last an incident occurred that set our blood running freely again. We were, of course, always on the alert, keeping a sharp lookout ahead and around us, and making as little noise as possible. Finally our watchfulness was rewarded, for in the middle of the afternoon of this, the third day we had been gone, as we came around a bend, we saw in front of us the lost boat, together with a scow, moored against the bank, while from among the bushes some little way back the smoke...
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 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 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.
หน้า 117 - Burningly it came on me all at once, This was the place! those two hills on the right, Crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight...