| Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1841 - 550 pages
...might gi?e them an advantage, which they could scarcely hope for in daylight. Accordingly, every thing remaining quiet at dusk, they again mounted and advanced...advancing to the attack, therefore, Calvin detached his eon with several halters, which he had borrowed from the men, to regain their own horses, and be prepared... | |
| Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1849 - 742 pages
...might give them an advantage, which they could scarcely hope for in daylight. Accordingly, every thing remaining quiet at dusk, they again mounted and advanced...Calvin detached his son with several halters, which he had borrowed from the men, to regain their own horses, and be prepared to carry them off in case the... | |
| John Alexander McClung - Indian captivities - 1852 - 344 pages
...might give them an advantage, which they could scarcely hope for in daylight. Accordingly, every thing remaining quiet at dusk, they again mounted and advanced...Calvin detached his son with several halters, which he had borrowed from the men, to regain their own horses, and be prepared to carry them off in case the... | |
| Frontier and pioneer life - 1875 - 806 pages
...thinking that the danger must be appalling which could dampen the ardor of a man like this Bombastes, became grievously frightened himself, and the contagion...Calvin detached his son, with several halters which he had borrowed from the men, to regain their own horses, and be prepared to carry them off in case the... | |
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