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Title: Rocky Mountain life; or, Startling scenes and perilous adventures in the far West, during an expedition of three years
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
Subjects: Hunting -- United States Rocky Mountains West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Wentworth and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he was unable to find his wayback to camp. He thu^wandered for four successive days, unarmed, without food, and with but a single robe for covering. His destiny would,doubtless, have been to perish, had not the kind hearted Tah-tunga-sanadiscovered him, and, pitying his forlorn condition, taken him to the village,upon his own liorse, some twenty miles off, going himself on foot the entiredistance. Here, the lost one was treated to the best the lodge of his de-liverer aff)rded, and, when sufficiently recovered, he was escorted to thenearest station of the whites. I turned lor another look at the worthy chieftain, who now rode upand grecLed his protege with much cordiality. Americans are known among them. The American Fur Company, employing almostexclusively Frenchmen, or imiiviJuals speiiking the French language, receives theappellatit)!! of Wah-ceichri. or the l^ad-nK-dicine company,—a phrase uuiver?ally appj\« ■. J > 1
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Chief of the Brule .?:oux. —/a^-c 84. SPEECH OF MARTO-COGERSHNE. 87 He appeared to be about eighty years of age, and was gray-headed,spare-visaged, and much wrinkled. His coat, buttoned cIose°around liim,served for a robe, wliile his matted ear-locks disclosed upon the one side aravens and upon the other a hawks feather, for ornaments. His fiice,like those of his companions, was liberally bedaubed with vermilion, andeach cheek embellished with alternate spots of white and black, by way ofvariety. His only weapons were a bow, arrows, and a tomahavvk-pipo. As a whole, he presented rather a shabby and ludricrous appearance,that, were it not for the recollection of his worthy conduct, would have ex-cited, in the mind of the beholder, far more of contempt than interest. A Sioux squaw, the wife of a French engage, accompanying us on herreturn from the States, now received the marked attention of our visitors.It is rare that an Indian will shake hands with a woman ; but now, theymight bre

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