Life in the Far West (A Rio Grande classic)

Ruxton, George Frederick Augustus

ISBN 10: 0873800982 / ISBN 13: 9780873800983

Published by Rio Grande Press, 1972

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life in the Far West (A Rio Grande classic)
• Publisher: Rio Grande Press
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873800982
• ISBN 13: 9780873800983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The camp had all the appearance of permanency; for not only did it comprise one or two unusually comfortable shanties, but the numerous stages on which huge stripes of buffalo meat were hanging in process of cure, showed that the party had settled themselves here in order to lay in a store of provisions, or, as it is termed in the language of the mountains, “to make meat.” Round the camp fed twelve or fifteen mules and horses, their fore-legs confined by hobbles of raw hide; and, guarding these animals, two men paced backwards and forwards, driving in the stragglers, ascending ever and anon the bluffs which overhung the river, and leaning on their long rifles, whilst they swept with their eyes the surrounding prairie. Three or four fires burned in the encampment, at some of which Indian women carefully tended sundry steaming pots; whilst round one, which was in the centre of it, four or five stalwart hunters, clad in buckskin, sat cross-legged, pipe in mouth.