I’m a free trapper of the American Fur Company. My beautiful squaw and I are reconnoitering a new alluvial hunting ground, a tributary of the Snake River.
We run with the Blackfeet. Our fires are huge, we move with the sun at our backs, keeping to the leeward shadows of the snow drifts, hunting beaver, elk, and the buffalo.
We find ourselves in a glorious valley teaming with life and enough herbage for our horses to graze in abundance.
We encamp under cover of a basalt prismoid, a natural cathedral of stone. The crystal clear firmament above reveals a trillion stars like a draught of milk spread across the celestial riviera.
We make love under cover of an immense buffalo robe and watch the moon come up over the snowy bluffs.
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Is any of this real? Probably not. But who cares.
Washington Irving reports the exploits of Captain Bonneville through the Rocky Mountains, the Snake River and the head waters of the Columbia– 1832-1835
NEVER LOST and ALWAYS FOUND
The unbelievable part: How in God’s name does Captain Bonneville direct his men to ‘Survey the Great Salt Lake’ and ‘Trap Beaver on the headwaters of Carmen’s bluff’, and ‘Parley with the Indians at Fort Wah-Wah’ — with the wild addendum, “MEET ME AT THE SUPPLY CACHE North of SNAKE RIVER next Spring”– and I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if somehow, someway– these rambling men, through the most rugged defiles of the Rocky Mountains are ALWAYS able to meetup with Captain Bonneville, at exactly the time and place specified, without the slightest GPS onboard?
HOW CAN THIS BE?
An awesome time in history, when real men kicked ass, and would have spit in your face for wearing a bandit face mask- you disrespectful Essential Worker Fags- sorry, had to reference the COVID FAGS.
The book is a treasure of probably fake history.
The text doesn’t compare to Washington Irving’s masterpiece, Knickerbocker’s History of New York.
I’ve read several Washington Irving novels and I’m beginning to believe that Knickerbocker’s History of New York was penned by an entirely different author– the style being so much more… FUNNY. Transcendent.
“populous solitude” reading
“fairy tree” reading
“Jupiter’s satellites” reading
“I love the whites” reading
naked “old dame” reading
“First white women” reading
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The Adventures Of Captain Bonneville by Washington Irving
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offering to combine public utility with his private projects, and to collect statistical information for the War
Department concerning the wild countries and wild tribes he might visit in the course of his
Notes: Awesome! Let the fronteir journey begin
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Notes: Columbia Oregon river.
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supplies of coffee, tobacco, ammunition, scarlet cloth, blankets, bright shawls, and glittering trinkets has the
greatest chance to get all the peltries and furs of the Indians and free trappers, and to engage their services
for the next season.
Notes: Frontier land
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Notes: The mountaineer.
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Notes: Begin adventure!
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is represented as a lighter, softer, more self-indulgent kind of man. He must have his Indian wife, his lodge,
and his petty conveniences. He is gay and thoughtless, takes little heed of landmarks, depends upon his leaders
and companions to think for the common weal, and, if left to himself, is easily perplexed and lost.
Notes: FRENCH lol
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Drop him in the midst of a prairie, or in the heart of the mountains, and he is never at a loss. He notices every
landmark; can retrace his route through the most monotonous plains, or the most perplexed labyrinths of the
mountains; no danger nor difficulty can appal him, and he scorns to complain under any privation.
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interval there was a mess stationed; and each mess had its fire, where the men cooked, ate, gossiped, and slept.
The horses were placed in the centre of the square, with a guard stationed over them at
Notes: How to camp. 33 encoded
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seen by them before, and they examined them with the greatest minuteness; but the calf was the peculiar object of
their admiration. They watched it with intense interest as it licked the hands accustomed to feed it, and were
struck with the mild expression of its countenance,
Notes: Crow Indians first time with calf.
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Notes: Lol
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Agie, or Green River,
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number of Delaware Indians whom the captain had brought with him, by offering them four hundred dollars each for
the ensuing autumnal hunt.
Notes: Cash for game. Please note: NOT SILVER or GOLD!!! WTF!
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ready for action. The young braves of the tribe, who are destitute of property, go to war for booty; to gain
horses, and acquire the means of setting up a lodge, supporting a family, and entitling themselves to a seat in
the public councils.
Notes: Ishmael blackfeet indians
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Notes: trade women for spirits and smoke
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halted for a short time to make their toilette, an operation as important with an Indian warrior as with a
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Notes: Fashionable beauty preparing herself for show
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Notes: NEZ PERCE . Pierced nose indians
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from your apathy,” said he, “and strike some bold and decisive blow, you will cease to be considered
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Notes: Weak American injectable men
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renegado, named Kosato, a fiery hot-blooded youth who, with a beautiful girl of the same tribe, had taken refuge
among the Nez Perces.
Notes: Excellent way to introduce new narrative.
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Notes: No love in nightmare USA Babylon
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moment he takes a wife (a sort of brevet rank in matrimony occasionally bestowed upon some Indian fair one, like
the heroes of ancient chivalry in the open field), he discovers that he has a still more fanciful and capricious
animal on which to lavish his expenses.
Notes: Lol
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with minute icicles reflecting the prismatic rays, brought to mind the fairy trees conjured up by the
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Notes: Ask viola for reference – Arabian Night’s reference.
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Notes: Smallpox blankets
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the wonders of the mountains; the medicinal properties of which, he had heard extravagantly lauded by the
trappers.
Notes: Interesting description of seneca oil.
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Notes: Hehe
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Notes: hehe
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Notes: Wow! gut string bows!
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was, to penetrate to the Hudson’s Bay establishments on the banks of the Columbia, and to make himself
acquainted with the country and the Indian tribes; it being one part of his scheme to establish a trading post
somewhere on the lower part of the river, so as to participate in the trade lost to the United States by the
capture of Astoria.
Notes: The capture of Astoria
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tribe called Shoshokoes, or Root Diggers, from their subsisting, in a great measure, on the roots of the earth;
though they likewise take fish in great quantities,
Notes: Root diggers
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thread round her neck, from which was pendant a solitary bead.”
Notes: How do they survive winter without proper clothing?
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Notes: Descent more difficult than climb.
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remained. To kill their horses, dry the flesh for provisions, make boats of the hides, and, in these, commit
themselves to the stream—a measure hazardous in the
Notes: Horse hide boats
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Notes: Good opening paragraph
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their Indian friends for almost every thing, for they had lost their tobacco and pipes, those great comforts of
the trapper, and had but a few charges of powder left, which it was necessary to husband for the
Notes: Exploring the West
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travellers, who passed through these regions in the memorable enterprise of Astoria, we are inclined to think
that Snake River must be one of the most remarkable
Notes: Snake river
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calculated merely for defence against any attack of the natives.
Notes: Fort wallah-wallah
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Christian religion, in the Roman Catholic form, among them, where it had evidently taken root; but had become
altered and modified, to suit their peculiar habits of thought, and motives of action; retaining, however, the
principal points of faith, and its entire precepts of morality.
Notes: Child rape and 501c3 sellouts
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of these animals, they use a number of roots for food; some of which would be well worth transplanting and
cultivating in the Atlantic States. Among these is the camash, a sweet root, about the form and size of an onion,
and said to be really delicious. The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce
to a very
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Notes: Essential workers with badge and gun.
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This is a small place, containing about two hundred houses, situated in latitude 37 north.
It has a capacious bay, with indifferent anchorage. The surrounding country is extremely fertile, especially in
the valleys; the soil is richer,
Notes: 1833
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converts to the Jesuit fathers, and the Catholic faith was disseminated widely through the wilderness. The
growing power and influence of the Jesuits in the New World at length excited the jealousy of the Spanish
government,
Notes: Clonial jesuits
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deep. The walls are six feet thick, and sixteen feet high, with a vaulted roof of stone, about two feet and a
half in thickness.
Notes: How to construct this pre machine?
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Notes: Ten dollars for a mule.
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Notes: face mask for safety u weak fucks
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Highlight: These are interpreted by the superstitious Indians into warnings that strangers are
at hand; and one accidental coincidence, like the chance fulfillment of an almanac prediction, is sufficient to
cover a thousand failures.
Notes: Supernatural coincident
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carousals, and is dealt out to the trappers at four dollars a pint.
Notes: Four dollars a pint. Alcohol.
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Notes: Sighting device on ship to spot distant objects
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height, lithe and active, with hawks’ eyes and Roman noses. The latter feature is common to the Indians on
the east side of the Rocky Mountains; those on the western side have generally straight or
Notes: Roman vs flat nose indians
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Notes: Peculiar reference to English fish market
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Notes: Oh my god 1833
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Notes: Great ‘story’ about natives meeting white women.
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a bullet mould, seven traps, an axe, a hatchet, a knife and awl, a camp kettle, two blankets, and, where supplies
are plenty, seven pounds of flour. He has, generally, two or three horses, to carry himself and his baggage and
peltries.
Notes: Trapper outfit
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Notes: Indians
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of a delicious flavor, and highly nutritious. The women dig it up in great quantities, steam it, and deposit it
in caches for winter provisions. It grows spontaneously, and
Notes: Kamash root
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Christian missionary or two, and some trifling assistance from government, to protect them from the predatory and
warlike tribes, might lay the foundation of a Christian people in the midst of the great western wilderness, who
would
Notes: Barf
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Highlight: The more knowing ones of the tribe look on and
laugh; thinking it all too foolish to do harm; but they will soon find that women, children, and fools, form a
large majority of every community, and they will have, eventually, to follow the new light, or be considered
among the profane.
Notes: Snake oil sales
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Notes: A sign of what will happen in the future
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Highlight: The free trapper combines, in the eye of an Indian
girl, all that is dashing and heroic in a warrior of her own race—whose gait, and garb, and bravery he
emulates—with all that is gallant and glorious in the white man. And then the indulgence with which he treats
her, the finery in which he decks her out, the state in which she moves, the sway she enjoys over both his purse
and person;
Notes: Squaw and free trapper
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his constant
Notes: Take it with you. Everywhere. Rifle
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Notes: Great squaw story.
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Notes: Barf
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Notes: First mention of silver for money. Book nearly complete.
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