The adventures of Captain Bonneville . ss rapid streams, amidst floating blocksof ice: at other times, he is to be found with histraps swung on his back clambering the most rug-ged mountains, scaling or descending the mostfrightful precipices, searching, by routes inacces-sible to the horse, and never before trodden bywhite man, for springs and lakes unknown to hiscomrades, and where he may meet with his favor-ite game. Such is the mountaineer, the hardy trap-per of the West; and such, as we have slightlysketched it, is the wild, Robin Hood kind of life,with all its strange and motley populace
The adventures of Captain Bonneville . ss rapid streams, amidst floating blocksof ice: at other times, he is to be found with histraps swung on his back clambering the most rug-ged mountains, scaling or descending the mostfrightful precipices, searching, by routes inacces-sible to the horse, and never before trodden bywhite man, for springs and lakes unknown to hiscomrades, and where he may meet with his favor-ite game. Such is the mountaineer, the hardy trap-per of the West; and such, as we have slightlysketched it, is the wild, Robin Hood kind of life,with all its strange and motley populace, now ex-isting in full vigor among the Rocky Mountains. Having thus given the reader some idea of theactual state of the fur trade in the interior of our 38 BONNE VILLES AD VENTURES. vast continent, and made him acquainted with thewild chivalry of the mountains, we will no longerdelay the introduction of Captain Bonneville andhis band into this field of their enterprise, butlaunch them at once upon the perilous plains ofthe Far CHAPTER 11. Departure from Fort Osage.—INfodes of transportation.—Pack-horses. — Wagons. — Walker and Cerre; their char-acters. — Buoyant feelings on launching upon the Prai-ries. — Wild equipments of the trappers. — Their gambolsand antics. — Difference of character between the Americanand French trappers. — Agency of the Kansas. — GeneralClarke. — White Plume, the Kansas Chief. — Night scenein a traders camp. — Colloquy between White Plume andthe Captain. — Bee-hunters. — Their expeditions. — Theirfeuds with the Indians. — Bargaining talent of WhitePlume. ]T was on the first of May, 1832, thatCaptain Bonneville took his departurefrom the frontier post of Fort Osage, onthe ^lissouri. He had enlisted a party of onehundred and ten men, most of whom had been inthe Indian country, and some of whom were ex-perienced hunters and trappers. Fort Osage, andother places on the borders of the western wilder-ness, abound wi
Size: 1692px × 1476px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1868
