Life On the Plains And Among the Diggings: Being Scenes And Adventures of An ...
Life On the Plains And Among the Diggings: Being Scenes And Adventures of An ...
Alonzo Delano
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We were now oa a plain, sixteen miles distance to water. Hie sage h^re attained a great growth, being as high as my head, and the trunk, frequently six indies in diameter. I ob- served a new species of prairie dog, or it may be, a connecting link betwe^i the prairie dog and ground squirrel. They are about the mze of the latt^, with much the shape of the fi>rmer, and burrow under the sage bushes, to which they fly on the least alarm. We found them so numerous at some of our en- campments, that w...e could knock them over with sticks, and the boys amused themselves in killing them with pistols. They were very fit and dly, but, on being parboiled and roasted, were quite good. Many days afterwards, when traveling down Bear River, I saw a man who was traveling to California cm foot and alone, who lived upon them entirely, except what the diarity of the emigrants aflR>rded him. His manner of killii^ them was to shoot them with arrows from a bow wluch he canied, as he walked along. Antelope were plenty, and droves of mountain sheep, or ibex, were upon the hills.
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