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Identifier: ourcountrywest00bost (find matches)
Title: Our country: West
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: United States -- Description and travel West (U.S.) -- Description and travel Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Mass., P. Mason
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^killed them on the open plain. I have seen arrow-heads andspears driven quite through the shoulder-blade, showing withwhat great force they were sent. Next to the bones, in interest, come the buffalo trails, seeneverywhere as deep, crooked furrow^s. At the place in Dakotawhich I have in mind, they ran from the southeast to thenorthwest. These undoubtedlj^ show the course of thebuffaloes as they came and went from the feeding-grounds tothe watering-places.
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1. Gathering Bones. 2. Teepee Stones. 3. Buffalo Trails. 4. Buffalo Wallows. 5. Buffalo Bones. 6. Indian Camp. 7. A CiRCUS Ring. PRAIRIK SIGNS. 199 Occasionally on the prairies one comes upon an Indiantrail, shown by two parallel furrows, more direct andpurposeful than the buffalo trails. Still more interesting are the circles of stones found veryplentifully in McPherson County, indicating where the teepeeswere pitched. The stones, I suppose, served the purposes ofpegs, being laid on the edges of the tents. As they weresimply rolled off when the tent was folded, they served in turnfor others. I well remember what a stir it gave my imagination, onebeautiful May morning in 1863, as I stood in the midst of thelevel sward in McPherson County. On the west was the low,irregular line of treeless hills, and on the east the fresh, green,level plain, stretching into the misty distance like the AtlanticOcean, the far-away, advancing line of shanties, like a fleet oflittle boats, keeping up the i

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  • bookyear:1897
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:United_States____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:West__U_S______Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Alaska____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:Boston__Mass___P__Mason
  • bookcontributor:New_York_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:205
  • bookcollection:newyorkpubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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