Tales of the Southern Border

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Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853 - American fiction - 400 pages
 

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Page 14 - Territory, and following the game still farther towards the south, had been pleased with the promise of an abundance of it in Shelby county, and stopped there, just as he would have stopped at the foot of the Rocky mountains, had it been necessary to go as far, without troubling himself or caring to know who his neighbors were.
Page 27 - Arkansas, where his wife's father lived. The incident was soon forgotten in Shelby county amidst the constant recurrence of similar scenes. About four months after this affair, in company with an adventurous friend, I was traversing Western Texas. Our objects were to see the country, and amuse ourselves in hunting for a time over any district we found well adapted for a particular sport — as for bear hunting, deer hunting, buffalo hunting, &c. Either of these animals is to be found in greater abundance,...
Page 26 - ... devil before him fell upon his white flesh, making it welt in purple ridges, or spout dull black currents, he felt them no more than the dead lintel of his door would have done ; and the agony of that poor wife shrilling a frantic echo to every harsh slashing sound seemed to have no more effect upon his ear than it had upon the tree above them, which shook its green leaves to the self.same cadence they had held yesterday in the breeze. His wide-open eyes were glancing calmly and scrutinizingly...

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