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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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Buffalo Land
Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West

Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West

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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.
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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.

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