The Adventures Of Captain Bonneville By Washington Irving

























































































































 -  It is of a kind that often occurs in Indian life;
where love elopements from tribe to tribe are as - Page 126
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It Is Of A Kind That Often Occurs In Indian Life; Where Love Elopements From Tribe To Tribe Are As Frequent As Among The Novel-Read Heroes And Heroines Of Sentimental Civilization, And Often Give Rise To Bloods And Lasting Feuds.

14 The party enters the mountain gorge A wild fastness among hills Mountain mutton Peace and plenty The amorous trapper-A piebald wedding-A free trapper's wife-Her gala equipments- Christmas in the wilderness.

ON the 19th of December Captain Bonneville and his confederate Indians raised their camp, and entered the narrow gorge made by the north fork of Salmon River. Up this lay the secure and plenteous hunting region so temptingly described by the Indians.

Since leaving Green River the plains had invariably been of loose sand or coarse gravel, and the rocky formation of the mountains of primitive limestone. The rivers, in general, were skirted with willows and bitter cottonwood trees, and the prairies covered with wormwood. In the hollow breast of the mountains which they were now penetrating, the surrounding heights were clothed with pine; while the declivities of the lower hills afforded abundance of bunch grass for the horses.

As the Indians had represented, they were now in a natural fastness of the mountains, the ingress and egress of which was by a deep gorge, so narrow, rugged, and difficult as to prevent secret approach or rapid retreat, and to admit of easy defence. The Blackfeet, therefore, refrained from venturing in after the Nez Perces, awaiting a better chance, when they should once more emerge into the open country.

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