This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...PTER X. Dangerous Shooting. Revolvers vs. Arrows. Hals Trial of Skill. Comanche shooting. What the Great Spirit did. Our Visitors Departure. Vamose. Getting ready for a Start 82 CHAPTER XI. An Old California Ranch. The Proprietor and his People. His House. His Possessions. A most wonderful Exhibition ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...PTER X. Dangerous Shooting. Revolvers vs. Arrows. Hals Trial of Skill. Comanche shooting. What the Great Spirit did. Our Visitors Departure. Vamose. Getting ready for a Start 82 CHAPTER XI. An Old California Ranch. The Proprietor and his People. His House. His Possessions. A most wonderful Exhibition of Skill with the Lasso. Superior Horsemanship. The Don says it is Nothing. Once More on the Road. Our Trail forks. No-account People. Addios. Hal discusses the Situation. The Mission Indians. Their probable Number. Hal discourses on Grizzlies. Siles Advice. Hal boasts. Siles Hunt. His Skill in Shooting. Three Bullets in One Hole. The Split Shot. Our Doubts. Siles Success. His Promise 98 CHAPTER XIII. Sile goes Deer-Hunting. Fresh Meat for Supper. The Promise. Siles Story. Down in Maine. On the Mississippi. Trapping in the Rocky Mountains. Peter A. Sarpy. Early to Bed, and Early to Rise. The Panthers Cry. To Bed 109 CHAPTER XIV. A Suggestion. Hal wants a Grizzly-Hunt. A Surprise. Ned shoots a Cub. Hals Explanations. We are attacked by a Grizzly. The Boys Return. Why they left. Siles Query. Two Cubs 118 CHAPTER XV. Our Conclusions. Neds Statement. A Grizzlys a Grizzly, Big or Little. How to Dress Skins. The Process. Whose Brains. Which shall it be? Siles Opinion. He thinks Hal ignorant of the Subject of Tanning.128 CHAPTER XVI. Trappers and Trapping. Ike Mckenzie and the Silver Fox. How to set a Fox-Trap. Smoke and Lye. The Value of Skins. How to Manage a Pack-Train. Tend to yer own Bizness if Yer want it tended to.Hal doubts Fox and Geese 137 CHAPTER XVH. Sile shoots a Deer. Trapping. How Indian Braves become Warriors. Description of the Initiation, by an Eye-Wit-ness. A Terrible Scene. The Buffalo Bull Dance. The Medicine-Man. It does a...
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