Tale after tale he told of stampedes and of weaners piling up against fences.
The rest of the morning he filled in with tales of cattle-musters tales of stampedes and of cattle rushing over camps and "mincing chaps into saw-dust" until I was secretly pleased that the coming muster was for horses.
Yet sometimes there comes over me a longing for the sea as irresistible as the lust for salt which stampedes the reindeer of the north.
One of the greatest of these gold stampedes occurred in the heart of Alaska--in the center of a great wilderness until then unexplored.
The first three chapters are an attempt to draw in bold outline some dramatic episodes of the author's experience in the second of the three great gold stampedes of the Northwest.
Four years since, one of these stampedes occurred on the Plains of a band of horses, in which there were several hundred valuable animals.
Footnote 4: These stampedes are a source of great profit to the Indians of the Plains.
Almost daily new discoveries were made and stampedes occurred.
During the past winter, however, discoveries have been made which promise one of the greatest stampedes ever known.
But though hunger and thirst are probably responsible for more stampedes than all other causes combined, it is the unexpected which cannot be guarded against.
Flood's years of experience on the trail made him a believer in the theory that stampedes were generally due to negligence in not having the herd full of grass and water on reaching the bed ground at night.
I hope almighty hard that we don't have no stampedes on this here drive.
Many floods, stampedes and blizzards had assailed his nerves, but he yet could pour a glass of liquor, held at arm's length, through a knothole in the floor without wetting the wood.
Many a cowboy has lost his life in one of these wildstampedes of cattle, which would put an army of men to flight in a mad charge down upon them.
On the Old Trail some years ago one of these stampedes occurred of a band of government horses, in which were several valuable animals.
Stampedes were frequently very serious affairs, particularly with a large mule-train.
That's because Black Dog is in mournin' for a squaw who stampedes over the Big Divide, mebby it's two months prior.
Abby would cry, as she stampedes up all breathless, her childish face aglow.
Still, old Colonel Coyote shore stampedes him an' forces Peets to fly.
I've seen some buffalo stampedes back in Nebraska, an' this bolt of the steers was the same kind.
Of course they stampedes prompt when they hears us a-comin', so we don't get no fight.
When you-all stampedes a bunch of ponies that a-way they don't hold together like cattle, but plunges off diffusive.
Mace tells the party to take a cinch on his feelin's, an' stampedes over to the Mexican part of camp, which is called Chilili, on a scout for the boy.
This stampedes Texas complete, an' he throws the whiskey outen the stage an' don't get no drink.
Great gold stampedesthere may be, but under conditions far different from those of 1849.
The bad men and women of one moved on to the next, just as they did in the stampedes of placer days.
She had been in cattle stampedes before, and, though every fibre ached with fatigue, she flattened out her lean body and covered ground to the length of her stride at each gallop.
There was a half-breed Mexican in the outfit, a very quiet man, and when the causes of the stampedes were being discussed around the camp-fire, I noticed that he shrugged his shoulders in derision of the reasons advanced.
My herd had arrived at that market in bad condition, gaunted from almost constant stampedes at night, and I had gone into camp some distance from town to quiet and recuperate them.
I had been in stampedes before, but nothing like this.
The boys all got to talking about stampedes one night while we were waiting on a sidetrack, and I related to them an experience of my own.
He never does have no brothers nor sisters; an' as for fathers an' mothers an' sech, they all cashes in before ever Spencer stampedes off for skelps in that Mexican War at all.
One day a troop of reb cavalry jumps into the village, an' stampedesthese yere invaders plumb off the scene.
The sound of her voice stampedesme every time, but when the dago tries to stroke my ears, he was too numerous, so I held his head in the bucket until he began to subside.
Then he hears a band play, and it's too much--he just stampedesfor the woods.
We had a few stampedes and lost a few cattle, arriving in Cheyenne we had a royal good time for a few days as usual before starting home.
This was the year that the great buffalo slaughter commenced and such stampedes were common then.
They could be numbered by the tens of thousands and actually impeded the progress of the caravan and threatened constant danger from their blind, unreasoning stampedes which the draft animals seemed anxious to join.
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