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עמוד 28
... Indian campaigns ? Gentlemen who do not know a war - whoop from a wigwam , and who never have had to run a foot - race with a tomahawk , or pluck arrows out of the several members of their families to build the evening camp - fire with ...
... Indian campaigns ? Gentlemen who do not know a war - whoop from a wigwam , and who never have had to run a foot - race with a tomahawk , or pluck arrows out of the several members of their families to build the evening camp - fire with ...
עמוד 73
... Indian Gulch to Shakespeare Gap and intermediate points , be changed partly to the old Mormon trail . But I told you it was a delicate question , and warned you to deal with it deftly - to answer it dubiously , and leave them a little ...
... Indian Gulch to Shakespeare Gap and intermediate points , be changed partly to the old Mormon trail . But I told you it was a delicate question , and warned you to deal with it deftly - to answer it dubiously , and leave them a little ...
עמוד 74
... Indian trail , but , handled with proper deftness and dubiousness , I doubt not we shall succeed in some measure or otherwise , because the place where the route leaves the Lassen Meadows , over beyond where those two Shawnee chiefs ...
... Indian trail , but , handled with proper deftness and dubiousness , I doubt not we shall succeed in some measure or otherwise , because the place where the route leaves the Lassen Meadows , over beyond where those two Shawnee chiefs ...
עמוד 76
... Indians or by the United States troops in pursuit of them . By the terms of the law , if the Indians destroyed the property , there was no relief for Fisher ; but if the troops destroyed it , the Government of the United States was ...
... Indians or by the United States troops in pursuit of them . By the terms of the law , if the Indians destroyed the property , there was no relief for Fisher ; but if the troops destroyed it , the Government of the United States was ...
עמוד 77
... Indians proved to have been found destroying Fisher's property ) as to calmly continue the work of destruction themselves and make a complete job of what the Indians had only commenced . So Congress denied the petition . of the heirs of ...
... Indians proved to have been found destroying Fisher's property ) as to calmly continue the work of destruction themselves and make a complete job of what the Indians had only commenced . So Congress denied the petition . of the heirs of ...
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עמוד 19 - ... filled him pretty near up to his chin — and set him on the floor. Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog, and fetched him in, and give him to this feller, and says : ' Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his forepaws even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 18 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog.
עמוד 15 - If there was a horse-race, you'd find him flush, or you'd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first...
עמוד 14 - W. Smiley — a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel's Camp. I added that, if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him.
עמוד 17 - ... grip and hang on till they throwed up the sponge, if it was a year. Smiley always come out winner on that pup, till he harnessed a dog once that didn't have no hind legs, because they'd been sawed off by a circular saw, and...
עמוד 20 - Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller, and says: " Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore-paws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 19 - The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out...
עמוד 19 - And the feller took it and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, 'H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?" 'Well,' Smiley says, easy and careless, 'he's good enough for one thing, I should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
עמוד 15 - ... that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. Lots of the boys here has seen that Smiley, and can tell you about him.
עמוד 14 - There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49 — or maybe it was the spring of '50 — I don't recollect exactly...