Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . gh as the wheelon each side of the cart body, and the wheelsthemselves are large and enormously dished. j For from five to ten dollars apiece you may buyany number of these carts, so cheap is hundred pounds can be piled into themon good roads ; and even where there is a sloughat every half-mile, and a corduroy road the restof the way, they carry seven hundred poundswithout often breaking. The draught animalsare oxen almost exclusively, and these have har-nesses of raw hides, of a primitive cut and of aninfinite endura
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . gh as the wheelon each side of the cart body, and the wheelsthemselves are large and enormously dished. j For from five to ten dollars apiece you may buyany number of these carts, so cheap is hundred pounds can be piled into themon good roads ; and even where there is a sloughat every half-mile, and a corduroy road the restof the way, they carry seven hundred poundswithout often breaking. The draught animalsare oxen almost exclusively, and these have har-nesses of raw hides, of a primitive cut and of aninfinite endurance. With as many carts as hecan afford, and at least one fast buffalo-horse, \ with a gun of the Northwest pattern (price $8 \ wholesale), and a full powder-horn and shot-pouch, the hunter is prepared to go to the plains. But he never goes alone. He and his friendsand neighbors make up a brigade—large or small,it is called a brigade; and the brigade is a trav-eling town sometimes—men and women, horses, ; oxen, dogs, and carts, tents, lodges, frying-pans,. ST. JOSEPH, FKOAI PiiMKINA MOUNTAIN. 588 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. and all other housekeeping utensils that are port-able, traveling togetlier. In last summers hunt, for example, therewere, in one brigade alone, 400 men carryingarms, 800 women and children, 800 horses, 500oxen, 1000 carts, about 200 train-dogs, and asmany more mongrel curs. The wants of thesepeople are simple and few, and about as easilysupplied on the prairie as in the settlements.^Vs for the animals, herbivorous, they live ongrass and water; carnivorous, they live on meatand water. The brigade deserves the name of atraveling community for another reason. Theysubject themselves to a code of laws on the prai-rie even more rigid than those in force at latter end of June is the time of starting forthe summer hunt, of August for the fall hunt. A large camp of half-breeds on their way tothe plains is a sight to be seen. Their dress ispicturesque.
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