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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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reathes her lifeaway upon the blood-dyed snow. A few moments delay put us in possession of an ample supply of freshmeat,âthe Indian reserving the robe only as his share. The cow proveda most excellent selection, and did honor to the judgment of the hunter. As we travelled on, the snow, which scarcely an hour since had firstattracted our attention, became deeper and deeper, and our progress moretedious and difficult. From bare ground and comparatively moderate climate, we were fullyinducted to the region of snow, ice, and winter. The prairie was high andundulating. To our left an immense wall of secondary rock surmounteda ridge of naked hills, that described in its course the curve of a rainbow,enclosing upon three sides a large valley facing the east,âthence, stretch-ing westward and raising higher and higher, hastened to mingle its headsamong the cloud-capped suanaits and snows of the neighboring moun-tains. From a light coating of loose snow our course soon became obstructed C3O
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⢠) J < c * 1 t LEAU-QUI-COURT.âREMARKS. 109 by still deepening layers, covered with a thick crust, scarcely strong enoughto bear our weight, but quite sufficient to wrench and jar us at every step,and make our advance threefold tiresome. The cold was so intense, we were forced to walk to keep from freezing.Our difficulties thickened the farther we progressed. Night closed in uponus, and we could no longer distinguish our course. Yet we kept on, inhopes of reaching some creek or spring where we might await the comingday. Slowly, onward,âplunge, plunge, at every step ;ânow prostrate at fulllength upon the hard crust, and then again staggering in resistless mimicryof drunken men. The chill winds sweeping over the dreary expanse pierced us through ateach whiff, and seemed to penetrate every nerve, and joint, and muscle, asif to transform our hearts blood into icicles. But still it was plunge, plungealong ; onward, plunge, fall; but yet onward! There is no stopping placehere,â

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