Free Trapper's Pass

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Eyster William Reynolds. Free Trapper's Pass

CHAPTER I. THE RAID OF THE BLACKFEET

CHAPTER II. THE STRATAGEM OF THE TRAPPERS

CHAPTER III. THE CAPTIVES. – FRIENDS ON THE ALERT

CHAPTER IV. IMPRISONED IN THE FREE TRAPPERS’ PASS

CHAPTER V. MEETING OF ARCHER AND PARSONS

CHAPTER VI. CAPTURE OF JAKE PARSONS

CHAPTER VII. PARSONS AND ARCHER IN THE BLACKFOOT VILLAGE

CHAPTER VIII. WAVING PLUME AT LIBERTY

CHAPTER IX. ATTACK ON THE BLACKFOOT VILLAGE – RESCUE OF THE PRISONERS

CHAPTER X. THE REALIZATION OF THE DREAM

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With the privilege of the romancer, let us transfer the reader to a spot some thirty miles distant from the locality mentioned in the preceding chapter. It is a beautiful place. On the west the mountain, on the east and south the plains, on the north a spur of hills running out from the original chain. Here vegetation flourished, and the sweet breath of nature was fresh and dewy. Trees and flowers, and green grass, and sparkling streams greeted the eye, and the soft undertone of winds and waters, so like to silence itself, rang soothingly in the ear.

Hard by a spring of clear water, which bubbled out from under the huge trunk of a fallen tree, a small body of men were encamped around the smouldering embers of the fast-dying fire, on which they had prepared their evening meal. That duty having been disposed of, and their horses seen to, they were, after the manner of their class, engaged in a talk. The subject, too, which claimed their attention, was one of more importance than mere calculations as to peltries, or the ordinary run of camp-fire stories.

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The levelled pieces were let drop into the hollow of their hands, and Hawkins turned to Antonio with:

“I’ve heerd tell o’ this critter often, an’ I’ve seed him myself, twice afore, but I never heerd, and I never knowed of his gettin’ that close to a man without tryin’ to git closer. They’re an ugly brute, an’ I believe I’d sooner try a rough an’ tumble with a grizzly hisself. What does it mean?”

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