This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...off his beast and offered him a seat at our table. But, as though after all he was not safe, he muttered, " No--I'll chew some mushrooms," taking one from his pocket. It was with difficulty we prevailed upon him to taste better food, and then learned his story. He lived sixty miles or so west of there, and had had some ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...off his beast and offered him a seat at our table. But, as though after all he was not safe, he muttered, " No--I'll chew some mushrooms," taking one from his pocket. It was with difficulty we prevailed upon him to taste better food, and then learned his story. He lived sixty miles or so west of there, and had had some horses stolen from him. He knew the thieves, and started in pursuit, taking only a little provision and no matches. Following them, he forgot his direction, failed to overtake them, ate up his food, and went wandering about a desolate country, living wholly on mushrooms (trusting to luck not to get poisoned ones) and a few acorns. He said the fungi were "good raw, but he wished he'd had a fire to roast 'em, for then they was bully." After a few days' rest at the Agency he went back home, but whether he ever got his horses I don't know. To lose one's way used to be a common occurrence among the early wanderers in the Rocky Mountains, but now that the country is better known the danger is proportionately decreased. I shall have a little story of the sort of my own to tell presently. PROSPECTING AN "INDIGO LODE." 107 XIV. From Los Pinos we followed a trail over the mountains into the edge of Antelope Park--a magnificent valley, watered by the Rio Grande--then cut across a high spur to a point above Wagon Wheel Gap, and followed up the river through two days' journey, past splendid cliffs of soft, volcanic rocks, tinted white and black, yellow, buff, deep blue, light blue, and red. One of the men related a funny story of a tender-foot who passed through here, with some miners, en route to the San Juan silver region, where, also, we were then bound. When these deep-blue trachyte walls came in view the tender-foot was ...
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