Straight to the cabin of Pierre Bonnet Rouge he went and was welcomed by the Indian with the respect that only the real sourdough ever commands in the Indians of the North.
It was formed of a large quantity of sugar of molasses, with a small percentage of dried fruit for flavouring, while ordinary sourdough was used for fermentation.
A little bacon, a few beans, a taste of sourdough bread, with some black tea for a relish, formed the humble repast.
Sourdough stopped at the store one morning for tobacco.
When Sourdough walked in and learned the situation he bellowed, "Sufferin' sinners!
Damn my skin," Sourdough exclaimed, "and here I slept on them boots last night for a pillow.
Next instant she was on her feet and racing to camp ready to serve hot coffee and sourdough pancakes to the battlers of the night.
Smitty Valentine, hero of many another race and favorite of old-timers, drew second, Florence was third, and the two other sourdough contenders drew up the rear.
How's the chances for sourdough pancakes and coffee?
Friends," she said to her grandfather as they ate a hurriedly prepared breakfast of sourdough pancakes, "friends are fine, but sometimes they are a lot of trouble.
Finally the party went for a bath, each performing his ablution in installments, and while they were sunning themselves, Old Sourdough took a header into the lake as an example that they might follow.
Old Sourdough watched these arrangements with an expression of disgust.
In the meantime one of the party had shot a red squirrel, and at the suggestion of Old Sourdough it was nailed to the limb of a tree in anticipation of a little fun at Doc's expense.
Cheechalker, with his red face, looked for all the world like a lobster, so Old Sourdough took pity on him and had a heart-to-heart talk with the natives.
Cheechalker insisted upon his tin bathtub, but Old Sourdough finally pacified him with a description of a bath a la Wilderness.
Now Jan had no thought of fighting when he bowled Sourdough over.
It was said that when he believed himself to be quite alone with his dog Sourdough he indulged himself in some of the tendernesses of a widowed father who lavishes all his heart upon a single child.
But Sourdough will spoil your fine coat for you, my gentleman, the first time you come in our way," the sergeant would mutter to himself when he chanced to see Dick giving Jan his morning brush-down after Paddy was groomed.
Sourdough is practically a wolf, so far as fighting goes.
His whole frame was perfectly poised for the thrust from which no dog placed as Sourdough was could possibly escape.
They may squeal, but they've got to give trail when Sourdough comes along.
There'll be trouble with Sourdough if you're not careful, Vaughan.
Contact with Sourdough had greatly stirred the combatant blood in him, as had also the hated smell of the husky.
Sourdough gave a cry that was almost a scream, and his jaws flew apart, dripping Jan's blood.
As it was, the sergeant's intervention and Jan's angry response thereto gave Sourdough the opportunity he had longed for.
That, by all the rules in the northland game of which Jan was a past-master, brought Sourdough within seconds of his end.
Dick Vaughan made it his business to be on hand when Sourdough first met Jan.
Note: A Sourdough is an old-timer, while a Cheechako is a newbie.
There are two kinds of camp cooks, the Baking Powder Bums and the Sourdough Stiffs.
With painful accuracy they established the exact time and place, "on the Big Onion the winter of the blue snow" or "at Shot Gunderson's camp on the Tadpole the year of the sourdough drive.
He had only one arm and one leg, the other members having been lost when his sourdough barrel blew up.
Like other artists, cooks are temperamental and some of them are full of cussedness but the only ones who could sass Paul Bunyan and get away with it were the stars like Big Joe and Sourdough Sam.
Calling in Sourdough Sam, the cook who made everything but coffee out of sourdough, he ordered him to mix enough sourdough to fill the big watertank.
Sourdough Sam brought out two pair of bees, overland on foot.
There is a landlocked lake in Northern Minnesota that is called "Sourdough Lake" to this day.
Visioned the cattle humped in the snow, tails to the biting wind, and the riders plodding with muffled heads bent to the drive of the blizzard, the fine snow packing full the wrinkles in their sourdough coats.
Darn me for leaving my old sourdough coat at home when I hit for the land of orange blossoms and singing birds and sunshine.
He saw them to the last little detail,--to the drift of snow on their hatbrims and the tiny icicles clinging to the high collars of their sourdough coats, where their breath had frozen.
He produced sourdough bread (which he fried in bacon fat), and some dried moose-meat.
I bought a copy of the "Nugget" and went into the Sourdough Restaurant to read it.
Having breakfasted heartily on sourdough flapjacks, warmed-over baked beans and coffee, they were ready for anything.
There were brown beans to clean and cook, and sourdough hotcakes to set for the morning.
So typical a feature of Alaska is the sourdough pot that the old timer in the North is called a "Sourdough.
Harlan learned from the old man that the sourdough hotcake, or flapjack is as typical of Alaska as the glacier.
After that, in the Sourdough Saloon, that night, they exhibited coarse gold to the sceptical crowd.
The real old time veteran and sourdough is a model of neatness and order.
No Sourdough on a long and perilous trip loads himself down with nails.
But if you are a real sourdough you will cut your own tent pegs, shaped according to circumstances and individual taste.
That evening the boy wondered at the silence of his big partner, who devoured his beans and bacon and sourdough bread, and washed them down with great draughts of black coffee.
No sourdough in his right senses would give fifty dollars for the three, but Sam Morgan's boy would gladly sacrifice his whole team of thousand-dollar dogs to save any one of them.
Sourdough Williams, it may be remarked, was a particularly hairy and unkempt individual who lived a more or less nomadic life in the hills, trapping.
Say, Ward, you look for all the world like old Sourdough Williams!
A part of Sourdough Mountains in the northeastern part of the Park.
A part of Sourdough Mountains in the northern part of the Park.
Lying between Sourdough Mountains and Sunrise Ridge in the northeastern part of the Park.
On the northeastern slope, on the shoulders of Sourdough Mountains.
Takes its rise in the Sourdough Mountains and flows northward across the boundary of the Park.
North of Sourdough Mountains, in the northeastern part of the Park.
In the northern portion of the Park at the western extremity of Sourdough Mountains.
A ridge jutting northwestward from Sourdough Mountains, in the northeastern part of the Park.
My papa give some of this sourdough to all his sons and daughters when they leave home.
They piled into the jeep, which had been warming up for a half hour, and drove about two miles into the foothills to the ranch of Vladimir Thorsen, the son of a Russian-Swedish sourdough who had struck it rich in the gold rush.
That French cook back at the road station even gave me a jar of that sourdough of his to get us started.
Sourdough was the prospector's staff of life on the trail," Superintendent MacKensie explained.
Sourdough Sam made everything except coffee out of sourdough.
But Sam was seriously injured one day when his sourdough barrel blew up and Big Joe was employed.
Of the other helpers it is perhaps sufficient to mention only Joe McFrau, who was able to ride anything which ever floated and in any water, and the two cooks, Sourdough Sam and Big Joe.
Sourdough Sam brought out two pair of the bees, overland on foot.
Sandy MacDonald, who had been stirring up a batch of sourdough flapjacks, turned about to stare.
The poorest trapper was ready enough to share with him his last batch of sourdough pancakes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sourdough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acid; lemon; lime; miner; pickle; sour; sourdough; vinegar; yogurt
