 I remember that, as we rode by the foot of Pike's Peak, when for a fortnight we met no face of man, my companion remarked, in a tone anything but complacent, that a time would come when those plains would be a grazing country, the buffalo give place to...  A Century of Science and Other Essays - Page 232by John Fiske - 1899 - 477 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Parkman - Frontier and pioneer life - 1875 - 406 pages
...have ceased, in great measure, to exist. It mirrors the image of an irrevocable past. I remember that, as we rode by the foot of Pike's Peak, •when for...met no face of man, my companion remarked, in a tone any thing but complacent, that a time would come when those plains would be a grazing country, the... | |
 | Edwards Roberts - Rocky Mountains - 1888 - 314 pages
...journeying in the then wilderness, which is now Eastern Colorado. He says : — " I remember that, as we rode by the foot of Pike's Peak, when for a...grazing country, the buffalo give place to tame cattle, farm-houses be scattered along the watercourses, and wolves, bears, and Indians be numbered ..J la'.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Frontier and pioneer life - 1892 - 410 pages
...measure, to exist. It mirrors the image of an irrevocable past. I remember that, as we rode by ftie foot of Pike's Peak, when for a fortnight we met no face of man, my companion remarked, in a tone any thing but complacent, that a time would come when those plains would be a grazing country, the... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1894 - 58 pages
...spring of 1846 he set out on his journey. "I remember," he says in the preface to " The Oregon Trail," "as we rode by the foot of Pike's Peak, when for a...place to tame cattle, houses be scattered along the water courses, and wolves, bears, and Indians be numbered among the things that were. We condoled with... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Frontier and pioneer life - 1898 - 522 pages
...have ceased, in great measure, to exist. It mirrors the image of an irrevocable past. I remember that, as we rode by the foot of Pike's Peak, when for a...grazing country, the buffalo give place to tame cattle, farmhouses be scattered along the water-courses, and wolves, bears, and Indians be numbered among the... | |
 | Francis Parkman - America - 1898 - 286 pages
...exist. It mirrors the image of an irrevocable past. I remember that, as we rode by the foot of "ke-» Peak, when for a fortnight we met no face of man, my companion remarked, in a tone anything bat complacent, that a time would *^ when those plains would be a grazing y, the buffalo give place... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Frontier and pioneer life - 1910 - 402 pages
...have ceased, in great measure, to exist. It mirrors the image of an irrevocable past. I remember that, as we rode by the foot of Pike's Peak, when for a...grazing country, the buffalo give place to tame cattle, farmhouses be scattered along the water-courses, and wolves, bears, and Indians be numbered among the... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - American literature - 1927 - 586 pages
...life which have ceased, in great measure, to exist. "I remember that, as we rode by the foot of Pikes Peak, when for a fortnight we met no face of man,...grazing country, the buffalo give place to tame cattle, farmhouses be scattered along the watercourses, and wolves, bears, and Indians be numbered among the... | |
 | Tom McHugh - Nature - 1979 - 412 pages
...in the 1870's as the hidemen spread out over the Kansas plains like ants. Francis Parkman forecast that "a time would come when those plains would be...grazing country, the buffalo give place to tame cattle, farm-houses be scattered along the water-courses, and wolves, bears and Indians be numbered among the... | |
 | John Canfield Ewers - Social Science - 1997 - 294 pages
...predicted that "these plains would be grazing country, the buffalo give place to tame cattle, farmhouses be scattered along the watercourses, and wolves, bears,...and Indians be numbered among the things that were." Part of this prophecy has come true. But the Indian — regarded as the vanishing American during the... | |
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