Hamilton My Sixty Years on the Plains

Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5312-8189-2
Verlag: Charles River Editors
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 185 Seiten

My Sixty Years on the Plains contains the adventures of 'Bill' Hamilton, an American frontiersman who lived during the 19th century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamilton, W. T.

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The Vote that Made me an Indian Fighter. St. Louis. I Join Bill Williams’s Party. The Boy Catches on. A Parley with Kiowas. Friendly Cheyennes. A Traders’ Trick. My First Sign-Talk. A Good Trade. Swift Runner my Friend. Athletics and Longevity. Your chapter “CHAPTER II” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
Buffalo Hunt with Cheyennes. A Stirring Picture. My First Buffalo. Perils of the Chase. We are Feasted on our Return. Character of the Cheyennes. Pemmican and Depuyer a Substitute for Bread. We Leave the Cheyennes. Your chapter “CHAPTER III” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
Sioux Village on the South Platte. A Pawnee Horse Raid. We Give Chase. Wonderful Endurance of the Indian Pony. The Stock Recaptured. My First Shot at an Indian. Return with Pawnee Scalps. Coup-Sticks. Counting Coups. Your chapter “CHAPTER IV” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
Fur-Trade Rivalries. “Free Traders” and the Companies. Wealth of the Sioux. War-Parties and Singing. Indian Revenge. We Sell our Furs for Good Prices. Bill Williams a Diplomat. Visited by Arapahoes. We Trade, Feast, and Smoke. A Threatening Party of Crows. “Business Diplomacy.” Your chapter “CHAPTER V” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
In a Dangerous Country. We Find a Moccasin and Prepare for Trouble. Attacked in the Night by Blackfeet. The Enemy Repulsed. Scalps Taken. Pursuit. Williams a Reckless Indian Fighter. I Lift my First Scalp. We Wipe Out the Entire Party. Beaver Trapping an Art. Your chapter “CHAPTER VI” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
Little Wind River. A Wonderful Hot Spring. Shoshone Scouts. Chief Washakie. We Trade our Blackfoot Plunder. Shoshone Horse for Blackfoot Scalp. A Night of Council, Scalp Dance, and War Song. The Fate of Two Trappers. “Good for Evil” not the Trappers’ Creed. Shakespeare in a Trapper’s Pack. Mountain Men Great Readers. A White Beaver. Your chapter “CHAPTER VII” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
The Scouts Report Indian War-Parties. We Resolve to Clear the Country of them. Scouting for Hostiles. A Want of Strategy. Some Actual Warfare. A Wild Scene. We Have a Close Encounter. We Rush the Knoll. A Night of Mingled Mourning and Rejoicing. Your chapter contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
A Brush with Piegans. We Part from the Shoshones. I Mystify Washakie. Indian Horsemanship. The Shoshones. Beaver Trapping. My First Bear. A Lesson in Bear Shooting. Fascination of the Mountain Life. Your chapter “CHAPTER IX” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
The Blackfoot Fort in Utah. A Good Day for Bears. Fort Bridger. Mountain Men’s Law. We Trade our Furs. Infatuated with the Life. Exploration of the Yellowstone in 1839. Afterwards I Visit that Country. Trappers’ Tales. My Skill in Sign-Language. We Go with Washakie’s Band. Your chapter “CHAPTER XI” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
An Expedition to Explore Utah. The “Boy” Becomes “Bill.” Old Bear Orders us off. “Big Chief never Smokes with White Dogs.” Trapper Life in a Hostile Indian Country. Fortified in Camp Weber. The American Trapper a Fine Type. We Hear Wolf Howls and Prepare for Attack. The Enemy Repulsed with Heavy Losses. A “Big Talk” and Peace. “It Costs too much Blood to Fight Trappers.” Your chapter “CHAPTER XII” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
Bear River. The Bannocks. A Swim with the Mercury 38° below Zero. The Pah Utes a Low Race. Poisoned Arrows. Brown’s Hole and its Gay Winter Life. I am Made Trader. A Terrible Storm. Our Horses Stolen by Blackfeet. A Hard Ride. We Recapture the Stock. Your chapter “CHAPTER XIII” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
Williams Returns. Tygee the Bannock. A Lucky 13. Indians of the Blackfoot Country. Life at a Trappers’ Rendezvous. Hostile Bannocks. Howlack in a Rage. We Prepare for Trouble. Prowling Wolves when Shot Prove to be Indians. Spies who did not Return. Three Hundred Warriors Charge the Camp. A Desperate Fight. The Enemy Routed. Your chapter “CHAPTER XIV” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal or the Clear Formatting style to the paragraph. The body paragraph we think you might have accidentally formatted as a Heading is:
The Bannocks Taught a Lesson. Indians as Fighters. Excited Umatillas. The Walla Walla Valley. Its Fish and Game. The Walla Wallas. Tygh Valley.Indians Salmon Spearing. Indians Salmon Spearing. My First Sight of the Columbia. Latitude 49°. Vicissitudes of the Trapper’s Life. Your chapter “CHAPTER XV” contains a very long chapter title or subheading. You might have accidentally applied a Heading style such as Heading 1 to one of your body paragraphs. To fix the issue, apply the Normal...