eBooks „buffalo“
102 eBooks were found for the search term „buffalo“.
Francis Lynde
: Empire Builders
- Business & Economics
- English
- 84307 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
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Engine Number 206, Narrow Gauge, Was Pushing, Or Rather Failing To Push,
The Old-Fashioned Box-Plow Through The Crusted Drifts On The Uptilted
Shoulder Of Plug Mountain, At Altitude Ten Thousand Feet, With The
Mercury At Twelve Below Zero. There Was A Wind--The Winter Day Above
Timber-Line Without Its Wind Is As Rare As A Thawing Christmas--And It
Cut Like Knives Through Any Garmenting Lighter Than Fur Or Leather. The
Cab Of The 206 Was Old And Weather-Shaken, And Ford Pulled The Collar Of
His Buffalo Coat About His Ears When The Grunting Of The Exhaust And The
Shrilling Of The Wheels On The Snow-Shod Rails Stopped Abruptly.
"Gar-R-R!" Snarled Gallagher, The Red-Headed Irish Engineer, Shutting
Off The Steam In Impotent Rage. "The Power Is Not In This Dommed Ould
Camp-Kittle Sewin' Machine! 'Tis Heaven'S Pity They Wouldn'T Be Givin'
Us Wan Man-Sized, Fightin' Lokimotive On This Ind Of The Line, Misther
Foord."
Ford, Superintendent And General Autocrat Of The Plug Mountain Branch Of
The Pacific Southwestern, Climbed Down From His Cramped Seat On The
Fireman'S Box And Stood Scowling At The Retracting Index Of The
Steam-Gauge. When He Was On His Feet Beside The Little Irishman, You Saw
That He Was A Young Man, Well-Built, Square-Shouldered And Athletic
Under The Muffling Of The Shapeless Fur Greatcoat; Also, That In Spite
Of The Scowl, His Clean-Shaven Face Was Strong And Manly And Good To
Look Upon.
"Power!" He Retorted. "That'S Only One Of The Hundred Things They Don'T
Give Us, Mike. Look At That Steam-Gauge--Freezing Right Where She
Stands!" [more]
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Emerson Hough
The Mississippi Bubble
- Fiction
- English
- 96726 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Hough was born in Newton, Iowa on June 28, 1857. He was in Newton High School's first graduating class of three in 1875.[1] He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1880 and later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882.[2] His first article, "Far From The Madding Crowd," was published in Forest and Stream in 1882.[2]
He moved to White Oaks, New Mexico, practiced law there, and wrote for the White Oaks newspaper Golden Era for a year and a half, returning to Iowa when his mother was ill.[3] He later wrote a novel, Story of the Outlaw, a study of the western desperado, which included profiles of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Hough moved to New Mexico after Garrett shot Billy the Kid, and he became a friend of Garrett.[4] He wrote for various newspapers in Des Moines, Iowa, Sandusky, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, and Wichita, Kansas.[5] In 1889 he got a position as western editor of Forest and Stream, editing the "Chicago and the West" column.[6] He was hired by George Bird Grinnell, the owner of Field and Stream, who founded the Audubon Society in 1886 which, along with Theodore Roosevelt's Boone and Crockett Club, was a leader in the conservation movement.[7]
Hough was also a conservationist. One of his projects for Forest and Stream was to survey Yellowstone National Park in midwinter 1893, with a guide and 2 soldiers from the nearby fort of the same name. There were supposed to be more than 500 buffalo there, but their count barely reached 100. Due to Hough's report, eastern newspapers took up the cause against poaching, and in May 1894 the U.S. Congress passed a law making poaching of game in national parks a punishable offense.[8] Later, he and other Saturday Evening Post writers wrote a letter for Stephen Mather and George Horace Latimer to sign, advocating the creation of a national park system. The National Park Service was created in 1916.[9] In addition, he was a co-founder of the Izaak Walton League, an organization of outdoorsmen, in 1922.[10] He wrote the "Out-of-Doors" column for the Saturday Evening Post and these columns later appeared in book form.[11]
In 1902, Hough began his association with Bobbs-Merrill Company (then Bowen-Merrill), which published his first best-seller, The Mississippi Bubble. Hough began a trilogy on America when he published 54-40 or Fight in 1909, dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. He dedicated the second volume, Purchase Price, to U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana in 1910 and the third, John Rawn, to Woodrow Wilson in 1912.[12] He nevertheless campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt, candidate of the Bull Moose Party, in the 1912 presidential election.[13] [more]
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