قراءة كتاب Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West
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اللغة: English
Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West
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had photographs taken.
The plains, it must be said, are a tract with which Romance has had much more to do than History. Red men, brave and chivalrous, and unnatural buffalo, with the habits of lions, exist only in imagination. In these pages, my earnest endeavor, when dealing with actualities, has been to "hold the mirror up to Nature," and to describe men, manners, and things as they are in real life upon the frontiers, and beyond, to-day.
W. E. W.
Topeka, Kansas, May, 1872.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGES. | |
| THE OBJECT OF OUR EXPEDITION—A GLIMPSE OF ALASKA THROUGH CAPTAIN | |
| WALRUS' GLASS—WE ARE TEMPTED BY OUR RECENT PURCHASE—ALASKAN | |
| GAME OF "OLD SLEDGE"—THE EARLY STRUGGLES OF KANSAS—THE | |
| SMOKY HILL TRAIL—INDIAN HIGH ART—THE "BORDER-RUFFIAN," | |
| PAST AND PRESENT—TOPEKA—HOW IT RECEIVED ITS | |
| NAME—WAUKARUSA AND ITS LEGEND, | 25-35 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| A CHAPTER OF INTRODUCTIONS—PROFESSOR PALEOZOIC—TAMMANY SACHEM—DOCTOR | |
| PYTHAGORAS—GENUINE MUGGS—COLON AND SEMI-COLON—SHAMUS | |
| DOBEEN—TENACIOUS GRIPE—BUGS AND PHILOSOPHY—HOW | |
| GRIPE BECAME A REPUBLICAN, | 36-54 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| THE TOPEKA AUCTIONEER—MUGGS GETS A BARGAIN—CYNOCEPHALUS—INDIAN | |
| SUMMER IN KANSAS—HUNTING PRAIRIE CHICKENS—OUR FIRST | |
| DAY'S SPORT, | 55-63 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| CHICKEN-SHOOTING CONTINUED—A SCIENTIFIC PARTY TAKE THE BIRDS ON | |
| THE WING—EVILS OF FAST FIRING—AN OLD-FASHIONED "SLOW SHOT"—THE | |
| HABITS OF THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN—ITS PROSPECTIVE EXTINCTION—MODE | |
| OF HUNTING IT—THE GOPHER SCALP LAW, | 64-74 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| A TRIAL BY JUDGE LYNCH—HUNG FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT—QUAIL | |
| SHOOTING—HABITS OF THE BIRDS, AND MODE OF KILLING THEM—A | |
| RING OF QUAILS—THE EFFECTS OF A SEVERE WINTER—THE SNOW | |
| GOOSE, | 75-83 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| OFF FOR BUFFALO LAND—THE NAVIGATION OF THE KAW—FORT RILEY—THE | |
| CENTER-POST OF THE UNITED STATES—OUR PURCHASE OF HORSES—"LO" | |
| AS A SAVAGE AND AS A CITIZEN—GRIPE UNFOLDS THE INDIAN | |
| QUESTION—A BALLAD BY SACHEM, PRESENTING ANOTHER VIEW, | 84-98 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| GRIPE'S VIEWS OF INDIAN CHARACTER—THE DELAWARES, THE ISHMAELITES | |
| OF THE PLAINS—THE TERRITORY OF THE "LONG HORNS"—TEXANS | |
| AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS—MUSHROOM ROCK—A VALUABLE DISCOVERY—FOOTPRINTS | |
| IN THE ROCK—THE PRIMEVAL PAUL AND | |
| VIRGINIA, | 99-111 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| THE "GREAT AMERICAN DESERT"—ITS FOSSIL WEALTH—AN ILLUSION DISPELLED—FIRES | |
| ACCORDING TO NOVELS AND ACCORDING TO FACT—SENSATIONAL | |
| HEROES AND HEROINES—PRAIRIE DOGS AND THEIR HABITS—HAWK | |
| AND DOG, AND HAWK AND CAT, | 112-123 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| WE SEE BUFFALO—ARRIVAL AT HAYS—GENERAL SHERIDAN AT THE FORT—INDIAN | |
| MURDERS—BLOOD-CHRISTENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD—SURPRISED | |
| BY A BUFFALO HERD—A BUFFALO BULL IN A QUANDARY—GENTLE | |
| ZEPHYRS—HOW A CIRCUS WENT OFF—BOLOGNA TO LEAN ON—A | |
| CALL UPON SHERIDAN, | 124-141 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| HAYS CITY BY LAMP-LIGHT—THE SANTA FE TRADE—BULL-WHACKERS—MEXICANS—SABBATH | |
| ON THE PLAINS—THE DARK AGES—WILD BILL | |
| AND BUFFALO BILL—OFF FOR THE SALINE—DOBEEN'S GHOST-STORY—AN | |
| ADVENTURE WITH INDIANS—MEXICAN CANNONADE—A RUNAWAY, | 142-160 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| WHITE WOLF, THE CHEYENNE CHIEF—HUNGRY INDIANS—RETURN TO HAYS—A | |
| CHEYENNE WAR PARTY—THE PIPE OF PEACE—THE COUNCIL | |
| CHAMBER—WHITE WOLF'S SPEECH, AS RENDERED BY SACHEM—THE | |
| WHITE MAN'S WIGWAM, | 161-176 |
| CHAPTER XII. |