 | 1900 - 416 страници
..."With a buffalo skin and a piece of charcoal," says Captain Gunnison, who employed Bridger as a guide, "he will map out any portion of this immense region and delineate streams, mountains and the circular valleys, called 'holes' with wonderful accuracy." Scores of prominent,... | |
 | Hiram Martin Chittenden - 1895 - 478 страници
...his impressions in sketches. " With a buffalo skin and a piece of charcoal," says Captain Guunison, " he will map out any portion of this immense region,...valleys, called ' holes,' with wonderful accuracy." His ability in this line caused him.always to be in demand as guide to exploring parties, and his name... | |
 | Montana Historical Society - 1900 - 430 страници
..."With a buffalo skin and a piece of charcoal," says Captain Gunnison, who employed Bridger as a guide, "he will map out any portion of this immense region and delineate streams, mountains and the circular valleys, called 'holes' with wonderful accuracy." Scores of prominent... | |
 | Katharine Coman - 1912 - 514 страници
...Cordilleran wilderness from the Missouri River to the Rio Grande and from the Gila to the Columbia. "With a buffalo-skin and a piece of charcoal, he will...valleys called 'holes,' with wonderful accuracy." M Their intimate knowledge of the Far West gave the "mountain men" an advantage in the selection of... | |
 | Hiram Martin Chittenden - 1903 - 468 страници
...his impressions, in sketches. "With a buffalo skin and a piece of charcoal," says Captain Gunnison, "he will map out any portion of this immense region,...mountains, streams, and the circular valleys, called Tioles,' with wonderful accuracy." His ability in this line caused him always to be in demand as a... | |
 | J. Cecil Alter - 1925 - 610 страници
...as if the scene were a campflre in the mountains, "he will map out any portion of this immense 228 region, and delineate mountains, streams, and the...portion we traversed after his descriptions were given." Bridger had discovered and explored much of the prehistoric land of the cliff dwellers in the Southwest,... | |
 | Louis Convers Cramton - 1932 - 160 страници
...and the interior of California. His graphic sketches are delightful romances. With a buffalo skin and piece of charcoal, he will map out any portion of...most romantic and enticing, of the headwaters of the Yellowstone. A lake 60 miles long, cold and pellucid, lies embosomed amid high precipitous mountains.... | |
 | 1914 - 1240 страници
...American hunter, trapper and guide of his day. "With a buffalo skin and a piece of charcoal he can map out any portion of this immense region and delineate mountains, streams, and circular valleys, called 'holes,' with wonderful accuracy." It is June 28, 1847. The place is "the... | |
 | J. Cecil Alter - 1962 - 388 страници
...along the Gila to the Gulf. . . . His graphic sketches are delightful romances. With a buffalo skin and a piece of charcoal he will map out any portion...valleys called 'holes' with wonderful accuracy (at least the portion we traversed). "Another region he visited and trapped in lies to the west of the [Rio Grande]... | |
 | LeRoy Reuben Hafen - 1982 - 440 страници
...and along the Gila to the Gulf. . . His graphic sketches are delightful romances. With a buffalo skin and a piece of charcoal ... he will map out any portion...the circular valleys called "holes" with wonderful accuracy.20 On June 20, 1834, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was dissolved and the new firm of Fitzpatrick,... | |
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With a buffalo-skin and a piece of charcoal, he will map out any portion of this immense region, and delineate mountains, streams, and the circular valleys called 'holes', with wonderful accuracy; at least we may so speak of that portion we traversed... 
