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Title: Beyond the old frontier : adventures of Indian-fighters, hunters, and fur-traders
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Ross, Alexander, 1783-1856 Ruxton, George Frederick Augustus, 1820-1848 Garrard, Lewis Hector, 1829-1887 Palliser, John, 1807-1887 Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) Fur trade -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is charge out of the fort; and ridingrapidly from side to side of the rear of the band, urgedthem on and soon had them nibbling the short drygrass in a little vale within grape shot distance of theguns of the bastion. It is customary for a guard ofanimals about these trading-posts to take his stationbeyond his charge; and if they stray from each other,or attempt to stroll too far, he drives them together,and thus keeps them in the best possible situation to bedriven hastily to the corral, should the Indians, or otherevil persons, swoop down upon them. And as there isconstant danger of this, his horse is held by a long rope,and grazes around him,that he may be mounted quicklyat the first alarm for a retreat within the walls. Thefaithful guard at Bents, on the morning of the disasterI am relating, had dismounted after driving out hisanimals, and sat upon the ground, watching with thegreatest fidelity for every call of duty; when these 50or 60 Indians sprang from their hiding places, ran
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KIT CARSON From the painting in the Capitol at Denver, Colorado When Beaver Skins Were Money 165 upon the animals, yelling horribly, and attempted todrive them across the river. The guard, however,nothing daunted, mounted quickly, and drove his horseat full speed among them. The mules and horseshearing his voice amidst the frightening yells of thesavages, immediately started at a lively pace for thefort; but the Indians were on all sides, and bewilderedthem. The guard still pressed them onward, andcalled for help; and on they rushed, despite the effortsof the Indians to the contrary. The battlements werecovered with men. They shouted encouragement tothe brave guard--Onward, onward, and the injunc-tion was obeyed. He spurred his horse to his greatestspeed from side to side and whipped the hindermost ofthe band with his leading rope. He had saved everyanimal: he was within 20 yards of the open gate: hefell: three arrows from the bows of the Cumancheshad cloven his heart, and, relieved o

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