And hostilities would break out again some day, for the mountain-men of Anatolia would never accept Hyksos domination. ❋ Christian Jacq (2002)
The wind of March is as pure champagne to a healthy constitution; and let mountain-men laugh as they will at Highgate-hill, it is no ordinary labor to go and look down upon London from its height. ❋ Various (N/A)
Our Zeitoonli Armenians trudged through the mud behind us at a splendid pace -- mountain-men with faces toward their hills. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1920)
Indian trader, who was about to proceed to St. Louis with the peltries, the produce of his winter trade; and as he would be accompanied by a large escort of mountain-men, we resolved to remain and accompany his party for the security it afforded. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Arkansa or Platte, or in some of the mountain valleys, which are the wintering places of many of the trappers and mountain-men. ❋ Unknown (1916)
In the attack on the Indian pueblo it was said that Big Nigger particularly distinguished himself, calling by name to several of the mountain-men who were amongst the attacking party, and inviting them to come near enough for him, the Big Nigger, to ❋ Unknown (1916)
Skirting a low range of mountains, the trail passes a valley upwards of fifty miles in length, intersected by numerous streams (called creeks by the mountain-men), which rise in the neighboring highlands, and fall into the Del Norte, near its upper waters. ❋ Unknown (1916)
The Pueblo is a small square fort of adobe with circular bastions at the corners, no part of the walls being more than eight feet high, and round the inside of the yard or corral are built some half-dozen little rooms inhabited by as many Indian traders, coureurs des bois, and mountain-men. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Coffee, being very cheap in the States, is the universal beverage of the western people, and finds its way to the mountains in the packs of the Indian traders, who retail it to the mountain-men at the moderate price of from two to six dollars the half-pint cup. ❋ Unknown (1916)
God dam, and mountain-men dey come aqui from autre cote, drink all my cafe. ❋ Unknown (1916)
I was that day hunting in company with a French Canadian and an American, both trappers and old mountain-men, when, at sundown, just as we had built a fire and were cooking our suppers under some trees near the river, we heard the gobble-gobble of an old turkey-cock, as he called his flock to roost. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Indians themselves are such admirable pantomimists, that, after a little use, no difficulty whatever exists in carrying on a conversation by such a channel; and there are few mountain-men who are at a loss in thoroughly understanding and making themselves intelligible by signs alone, although they neither speak nor understand a word of the ❋ Unknown (1916)
The depreciation in the value of beaver-skins has thrown the great body of trappers out of employment, and there is a general tendency amongst the mountain-men to settle in the fruitful valleys of the Rocky Mountains. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Instinctively she had held herself aloof from the ruck of the young mountain-men, neither she nor they knew why, unless it was because she owned the valley land and so was what the mountain folk called rich. ❋ Edward Marshall (1901)
But everywhere among these plainsmen and mountain-men, and more important than any, are the cowboys, the men who follow the calling that has brought such towns into being. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Sometimes the mountain-men choose my verandah as their resting-place for the night, instead of going to the old woman's hut, as was their wont. ❋ Unknown (1887)
By night and by day twenty-three uncouth mountain-men were with us. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Old hunters and mountain-men tell many stories, not only of malicious grislies thus attacking men in camp, but also of their even dogging the footsteps of some solitary hunter and killing him when the favorable opportunity occurs. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
The mountain-men, although they used their influence to restrain the vengeful feelings of the Flathead tribe, whispered amongst themselves that Gray had preferred his own life to that of his friends. ❋ Unknown (1870)
