This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... Tuolumne complained about his feet; and, on examination, I ascertained that they were frostbitten. I immediately directed him to bathe them in very cold water, then anoint them with panther's oil, and wrap them up in cotton cloths. After doing this, he was put to bed and required to remain at camp for several days, by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... Tuolumne complained about his feet; and, on examination, I ascertained that they were frostbitten. I immediately directed him to bathe them in very cold water, then anoint them with panther's oil, and wrap them up in cotton cloths. After doing this, he was put to bed and required to remain at camp for several days, by which time he fully recovered. One of these days, Stanislaus and I went out on a short hunt, but were overtaken by a dreadful storm, and compelled to take shelter for the night under a pine-tree. We built a rousing fire, and lay down to sleep; but in the course of the night I awoke, and finding the weather very severe and Stanislaus suffering from cold, I made him take my blanket In addition to his own. As for myself, I coaxed Lady Washington, who accompanied us, as near the fire as possible, and then lay down next her, having her shaggy coat on one side and the fire on the other. It was my first experiment of this kind, and I felt a little fearful for a while of having a troublesome bedfellow; but, being very sleepy, I soon forgot my anxiety in slumber. Once only she rose and withdrew for a few minutes, but soon came back, lapped my hands a moment, and again nestled down in her former position, apparently with the object of getting as close to me as I wished to get to her. It was late the next morning before I waked, when I found my shaggy companion still sleeping, and as calmly and peacefully as could have been desired. In the early part of the winter we also made ourselves snow-shoes, by bending tough pieces of green wood into large bows, and weaving over them strips of green hide. These we fastened to the bottom of our moccasins with straps of buckskin; and, having thus wide foundations, we were able to walk easily upon the surface of the...
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Very Good. Octavo. Brown, blind-stamped cloth (7 5/8 in. x 5 1/4 in. ) Evidence of spine repair, fairly neat. Gilt lettering to spine. Yellow endpapers. Bookplate (generic, with handwritten name of George J. Richards, Jr. ) to front pastedown, with a few small, inked numbers to top of this pastedown page. His stick-on address label affixed to top corner of front free endpaper. Frontis portrait, and eleven engravings by Eastman and Loomis, from drawings by Charles Nahl. A clean, presentable later copy of this portrait of one of the mythological figures of Nineteenth-century America, No. 42, on the famous "Zamorano 80" list of memorable works of Western Americana, which found its way into movies and television in the latter half of the Twentieth-century.
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Very good. 12 plates. xiii, 373pp. 12mo, brown cloth. New York: Scribner's, 1912. Very good "...Adams dictated his autobiography to a writer, Theodore Hittell...In the course of Adams's adventures, he hunted in the Rocky Mountains, traveling east from California by way of the Walker River and the Humboldt Mountains to Salt Lake in 1854. From Salt Lake, he continued to Fort Bridger and returned to California in August." Later edition of Wagner-Camp 348: 1. Howes H-543.