Shooting and Fishing in the Rivers, Prairies and Backwoods of North America, Tr. and Revised [From Chasses Dans L'Amerique Du Nord and Peches Dans L'Amerique Du Nord] by the Chronicler - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... into a comfortable bed, where I was carefully tended. In a word, I was saved. The little man of the spear had been slightly wounded, and he recounted to me all that happened to the party in the San Saba Mountains. The Comanches, finding our comrades dispersed in groups, had taken them in detail and at a disadvantage. Two had been killed, and several others left for dead. Captain Sharpe had fallen into the hands of the Red Skins, and had been scalped--an operation from the consequences of which he subsequently died. Altogether, then, I had escaped very fortunately; but to this day, I cannot recall those terrible adventures without a shudder. I promised my friends at Bexar to commit them to writing, and I have kept my word; for it is not every sportsman who can say that he has been lost in the great American desert. THE BISON, OR BUFFALO/ The traveller when he has quitted Fort Leavenworth, on the extreme frontier of the State of Kansas, and close to that of Missouri, and has crossed the Arkansas river towards the north, soon Bison americanus. finds himself upon those vast and verdant savannas, that flourishing Sahara the great American desert, of which no words can give an adequate description. The prairies (as they are called in the United States) are not immense flat plains, carpeted with clover, sainfoin, and lucern; they are undulating surfaces divided by innumerable streams, on whose banks grow stunted cotton-bushes and buffalo grass,--that plant which serves as forage for the ruminants of the desert, and whose long stalk is crimped like a lettuce,--with all manner of other kinds of plants, whose blue, red, white, and yellow flowers enamel the uncultivated soil and transform it into a splendid Aubusson carpet. These oceans of verdure, which sometimes at...

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