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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eling more disposed to drink than pay for it, demanded the kegas a gift on the prairie. This was refused. They threatened—a fightensued, (the soldiers and trader defending the keg and the Indians tryingto take it.) Weapons were used, and the result was, both soldiers andtrader were beaten oflT,—the latter, after being dragged through the lodge-fire three or four times, narrowly escaped with his life. A party of Indians under the excitement of strong drink, attacked andtook a trading house of the American Fur Company, near by,—robbing itof both liquor and goods. Two parties in the Fur Companys employ, from different posts, met ata neighboring village,—one having goods and the other alcoliol. TheIndians, as usual, got drunk, and commenced a fight among themselves ;—because the goods-trader happened to be in the lodge of one of the weakerparty, they attacked him. He was compelled to flee, and barely escapedwith his life through the friendly interference of the squaws. His goods
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Bull Eagle deinking tile Fire-Water. — Page 119. SCENES OF BLOODSHED AND HORROR. 119 were all stolen;—while one of the Indians who defended him was brutallymurdered, and several others wounded. Not long afterwards, our trader was shot at, three or four times, whileengaged in this dangerous traffic, and one of his soldiers severely wounded. About the same time, the trader of another company received a deepstab, while dealino- out the vile trash, and would have been killed but forthe energetic efforts of his soldiers. Previously to the above, the Indians seized upon a trader and compelledhim to stand over a hot fire until he was nearly roasted ahve,—meanwhile,helping themselves to his stock in hand. Soon after, two warriors came to trade for a blanket at our post,—oneof whom was drunk. While being waited upon, the latter drew his knifeand was in the very act of stabbing the unsuspecting clerk, as I caught hiswrist and arrested the blow. At another time, as our trader was standin

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