 | Samuel Kercheval - Indian captivities - 1833 - 504 pages
...frequently happened that there was no breakfast until it was obtained from the woods. Fur and peltry were the people's money; they had nothing else to give...winter, including part of the spring, for bears and fur skinned animals. It was a customary saying that fur is good during every month in the name of which... | |
 | 1836 - 708 pages
...happened that there was no breakfast until it was obtained from the woods."* Moreover, fur and peltry were the people's money. They had nothing else to give...salt and iron, on the other side of the mountains. This traffic was denied in a great degree to the far west, owing to its distant position and the hostile... | |
 | Wills De Hass - Indians of North America - 1851 - 444 pages
...several months without a mouthful of bread. It frequently happened that there was no breakfast until it was obtained from the woods. Fur constituted the...winter, including part of the spring, for bears and fur skinned animals. It was a customary saying, that fur i? good during every month in the name of... | |
 | Missouri - 1855 - 94 pages
...that there was no breakfast until it was obtained from the woods.''* Moreover, fur and peltry were the people's money. They had nothing else to give...salt and iron on the other side of the mountains. In illustration of this currency which estimated property in bucks, that is their skins, instead of... | |
 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - Frontier and pioneer life - 1852 - 488 pages
...important part of the employment of the early settlers. For some years the woods supplied them with tho greater amount of their subsistence, and it was no...to give in exchange for rifles, salt, and iron, on tho other side of the mountains. The fall and early part of the winter was the season for hunting the... | |
 | Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...frequently happened that there was no breakfast until it was obtained from the woods. Fur and peltry were the people's money. They had nothing else to give...mountains. The fall and early part of the winter was the seaeon for hunting the deer, and the whole of the winter, including part of the spring, for bears and... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1855 - 908 pages
...frequently happened that there was no breakfast until it was obtained from tne woods. Fur and peltry were the people's money. They had nothing else to give...side of the mountains. The fall and early part of the year was the season for hunting the deer, and the whole of the winter, including part of the spring,... | |
 | Henry Howe - California - 1857 - 504 pages
...frequently happened that there was no breakfast until it was obtained from the woods. Fur and peltry were the people's money. They had nothing else to give in exchange for riñes, salt, and iron, on the other side of the mountains. The fall and early part of the year was... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1858 - 592 pages
...frequently happened that there was no breakfast until it was obtained from the woods. Fur and peltry were the people's money. They had nothing else to give...side of the mountains. The fall and early part of the year was the season for hunting the deer, and the whole of the winter, including part of the spring,... | |
 | Joseph Doddridge - Frontier and pioneer life - 1876 - 342 pages
...frequently happened that there was no breakfast .until it was obtained from the woods. Fur and peltry were the people's money. They had nothing else to give...winter, including part of the spring, for bears and fur skinned animals. It was a customary saying that fur is good during every month in the name of which... | |
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... certain times, the whole of it ; for it was no uncommon thing for families to live several months without a mouthful of bread. It frequently happened that there was no breakfast .until it was obtained from the woods. Fur and peltry were the people's... 
