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Excerpt from The Old Crow Wing Trail
Another reason may be found in the fact that over it I made my first prairie journey, that from one of its encamp ments 1 saw the last herd of buffalo ever seen east of the Red River, and that though I am about to describe it as seen by me in a peaceful journey late in the fall of 1860, I was to traverse it again when comparatively disused during the year of the Sioux massacre in Minnesota, as the only hope of reaching Fort Garry from St. Paul, where I then was, when a camp fire was out of the question, each river-ford and bluffof timber to be avoided, and a stealthy Indian tread to he fancied in the rustle of every leaf.
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Another reason may be found in the fact that over it I made my first prairie journey, that from one of its encamp ments 1 saw the last herd of buffalo ever seen east of the Red River, and that though I am about to describe it as seen by me in a peaceful journey late in the fall of 1860, I was to traverse it again when comparatively disused during the year of the Sioux massacre in Minnesota, as the only hope of reaching Fort Garry from St. Paul, where I then was, when a camp fire was out of the question, each river-ford and bluffof timber to be avoided, and a stealthy Indian tread to he fancied in the rustle of every leaf.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - John Schultz
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ISBN - 9780267840243
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 32
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ISBN - 9781331875925
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