We had not found an Indian village, and none of us got the five hundred dollars, but we all had a glorious adventure, and that to a frontiersman is better than money.
The great frontiersman did not make his advent in the mountains until years afterward.
Dropping to the ground again, the daring assailant ducked in time to avoid the revolver bullet aimed at him, and gliding in among the fleeing cattle, escaped before the infuriated frontiersman could get in another shot.
I've known that sort of thing happen more than once," said Shelton, the leader of the party, an experienced frontiersman who had served in two previous wars.
It was a long narrative that the old frontiersman had to tell, and I saw that Elam was so much interested in it that he forgot all about the supper, and I got up and assisted him; and that was all he wanted.
Just as long as they talked the hard-headed old frontiersman always came to this advice, and Elam always dismissed it with a laugh.
We waited until the old frontiersman had hung up his coat and hat where they belonged and seated himself on a camp-stool before the fire, and then the head and four feet of the camel were tumbled out on the floor.
You may be sure that I was glad to hear the old frontiersman talk in this way.
The pioneer and the frontiersman were laboring to achieve something far more important than clearing away trees, killing wildcats or subduing the wild men of the wilderness.
The American boy has an immeasurably greater opportunity to continue the heroic and patriotic work of the frontiersman and pioneer.
The boy wants no limit, and there is the same opening now to be a frontiersman and a pioneer in human values as there ever was, provided they are human values and not individual aggrandizement.
There is a limit to the submarine and the airship, as there is to all machinery ideals, but there was no limit to the frontiersman and the pioneer.
To reach the Mississippi Valley the frontiersman was forced to pass the Appalachian barrier, extending from Maine to Georgia.
This mountaineer Mitchell, full of eccentricities of character, has seen the ups and downs of a frontiersmanduring a long and eventful life.
During many of the winter months, a life on the prairies becomes a necessity to the frontiersman and not a pleasure.
There is one article of clothing, however, for which the frontiersman feels an ardent predilection.
It was a very thoughtful girl indeed who confronted the old frontiersman the next morning.
The old frontiersman and the young girl strolled off together.
After a half hour of exposure to the merciless fury of the storm, a thought came suddenly to Mrs. Maitland; she leaned over and caught the frontiersman by his wet sleeve.
They had not expected to hunt on this side of the river, but, now they were there, the old frontiersman said they might see what they could stir up.
The old frontiersman had sprained his foot, but he did not deem it best to mention that fact.
The question was so gravely put the old frontiersman had to laugh outright.
The keen wind cut like a knife, and they knew that it was this which had exhausted the old frontiersman they were trying to succor.
Reckon he's miles an' miles away by this time," and in this surmise the old frontiersman was correct.
It was Henry who met the old frontiersman at the stockade gate.
After a general survey of the situation, the old frontiersmandecided that the cliff terminated at a point several hundred yards to the southward.
He also pointed out Barringford's footsteps, and declared that the old frontiersman had most likely followed the others, after the pack-train was overhauled and looted.
While Mrs. Morris was preparing some pap and some warm milk Joseph Morris arrived with Sam Barringford, and proceeded to make the old frontiersman comfortable.
James Morris and the old frontiersman had imagined the weather would remain fair, but on the morning of the fourth day out a cold rain set in that chilled all to the bone.
Won't never see that" said the frontiersman named Lukins.
The old frontiersman blew a long stream of smoke from his mouth ere replying.
Not much wuth seein' so far," remarked the old frontiersman as he gave his torch another swing.
And lost so much time our army was defeated," put in the oldfrontiersman grimly.
Six of them, some bareheaded and some with hats whose wide rims dropped low over their foreheads, were clustered about old Davy Crockett, frontiersman and in his day a member of Congress.
The noon hour saw Davy Crockett and five or six companions standing in a corner of the shattered walls; the oldfrontiersman held a rifle in one hand, in the other a dripping knife, and his buckskin garments were sodden, crimson.
These, following the first impulse of a frontiersman when attacked, fled for shelter to the house, leaving the settler, with his wife and daughter, standing alone.
But the average frontiersman cared little for the niceties of color or flavor so long as his liquor was cheap and produced the desired effect.
This slaughter of the innocents at Gnadenhutten ("the Tents of Grace") reveals the frontiersman at his worst.
Wayne was the son of a Pennsylvania frontiersman and came honestly by his aptitude for Indian fighting.
But it happened that the recipient of the wire was one of the oldest residents, a frontiersman himself, and it was one of the traditions of the Old West that friendships were not soon forgotten.
Inherited tendencies were in a moment changing this weak, diseased youth into a frontiersman and wilderness inhabitant such as his ancestors had been before him.
During the hour that they were crossing over the foothills, on the way to the big timber, Silas Lennox talked a great deal about the frontiersman that had been Dan's grandfather.
But it might be that a legend of the gray, straight frontiersman who was his ancestor had still survived in these remote Oregon wilds.
Of course he was tall, just as the famousfrontiersman had been, but while the elder weighed one hundred and ninety pounds, bone and muscle, this man did not touch one hundred and thirty.
His own grandfather had been a hunter and trapper and frontiersman in a certain vast but little known Oregon forest.
He told, moreover, as well as he could, his route up the other side, until the frontiersman took up the story from the point where the lad had been seen by the spectators on the edge of the Canyon, near the hotel.
He was promptly taken to his tent and bidden to sleep, the while the frontiersman described enthusiastically the boy's pluck and nerve.
Even the trail upon which he set out to return was full of the memories of his frontiersman friend, who had lightened the way with anecdote and information on his first journey there.
When the two rode up the boy introduced his frontiersman friend to the chief of the party, the while he was being untied from the saddle, to which, in his still exhausted and stiffened state, he had been fastened.
The frontiersmansigned to one of the party who had brought some provisions along, and after the boy had been somewhat refreshed, the old man said: "Now tell us whar you've been.
Now he was a big frontiersman with a huge blond beard, and a bowie, knife stuck into his trousers in place of a sword.
At the time of which I write, my early childhood, he was a frontiersmanand hunter.
Thus, solitary and apart, the American frontiersman took up Missouri.
As the flotilla pulled out, a tall gaunt frontiersman with two white men and an Indian came pulling into St. Louis.
The great frontiersman sat smoking in his porch, meditating on the death of that beloved son killed on the way to Kentucky.
The appearance of this frontiersmanon the floor of Congress was an omen full of significance.
This frontiersman was little likely to allow political metaphysics, or even sectional suffering, to check his will.
When a clearing was sold to a later comer, fifty or sixty dollars, in addition to the government price of land, was commonly charged for forty acres, enclosed and partly cleared.
The frontiersman was generally unlettered, and used, without ceremony, to overcoming the obstacles which nature set in his path; one more patient could not have tamed the wilderness as quickly as he.
Thus it was that thefrontiersman of the Daniel Boone type, Indian hater as he was, had at heart much the same interests as the savage whom he was seeking to supplant.
Washington Irving has a delightful sentence somewhere (in Astoria I think) about the frontiersman hewing his way through the back woods and developing his character by "bickering with bears.
A man who ranks as a good frontiersman is pretty sure to be a good raconteur.
The frontiersman was a trial-and-error empiricist, who believed in his own ability to fathom the depths of the problems which plagued him.
The legendary self-reliance of the frontiersman is not without some basis in fact.
The crude wooden plow was the implement which made this frontiersman a farmer, although its effectiveness was extremely limited.
Like Topsy, "it jus' growed," and no frontiersman wanted it taken away.
The frontiersman took great pride in his hospitality.
His large, round glasses gave him a studious look that to a frontiersman was ominous.
On the following day Ferris and Merrifield started for the East, and Roosevelt set out on his solitary hunting trip, half to test out his own qualities as a frontiersman and half to replenish the larder.
For in those days nofrontiersman ever buried a dead redskin.
With that patience which thefrontiersman has learned from the Indian he followed a tortuous course through the brush.
Less noise, brother," whispered Bob; for the impetuous one was forever forgetting that a frontiersman must learn that silence is the price of safety when in the woods where the red man dwells.
They began to copy the frontiersman style of dress, as the best fitted for the life they expected to lead from this time forward.
The frontiersman had learned, perhaps from the Indian, perhaps from stern nature herself, to keep his feelings to himself.
The gamblers and saloon keepers did a thriving business, though a perilous one, for, on the slightest provocation, the frontiersman was ever ready with his shooting irons.
