Books with author Will W Allen

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Excerpt from Adventures With Indians and Game: Or Twenty Years in the Rocky MountainsIn the locality of the historic last battleground of the gallant General Custer, they remained three days, which they profitably passed in a careful study of the grounds, tracing accurately the various movements of the contesting foes um til they ended at the pile of bones that showed where the last white survivors met their death. Here the party divided, one part going to the Crow agency, another by Pryor's Pass, Sage Creek and Stinking Water crossing to Wind River, the others, with Doctor Allen, going to Camp Brown and to Bozeman, the end Of their journey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...pearls are generally considered jewels; they belong tc the animal, and not to the mineral kingdom. These are round bodies, white and shining, with a peculiar and beautiful lustre, for which we have no other adjective than pearly. They are supposed to be the effect of disease in the fish inside whose shells they are found, as they are not by any means found in all the shells. Various shell-fish yield pearls, but the finest, and by far the most frequent, are those produced by a peculiai kind of oyster, called from this circumstance, the pearl-oyster. The most abundant fisheries are near Ormuz in the Persian Gulf, and on the coasts of Ceylon, though they are obtained in many other parts of the east, and indeed of the world. How are they fished up? Expert divers go out in pairs or threes in boats or rafts tt the fishing ground, and then they cast anchor, and ore of Qu party, having fastened to his body a heavy stone to servr ballast, a net to contain his oysters, and a rope by whic i ta be hauled up again, goes overboard, and sometimes divei to the depth of sixty feet. He immediately commences gathering the oysters, which often adhere firmly to the rocks; when his net is full, or he can no longer hold his breath, he pulls the rope, and his comrades above haul him up again; sometimes, alas, this is not done in sufficient time to save him from the sharks and other voracious creatures which haunt these pearl beds, and he loses life or limb in his perilous undertaking! When the oysters are taken on shore they are heaped into shallow pits, and covered with sand; they soon open and die, the fish rots away, and the pearls fall out. They are then cleansed and sifted, and are valued according to their size; large round or perfectly pear-shaped pearls...

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Excerpt from The Sheep EatersSheep Eaters who afterwards intermarried with the Mountain Crows, a tall race of people who gave to the Shoshones a taller and better physique. From what can be gleaned, the Sheep Eater women were most beautiful, but resembled the Alaskan Indians in their short ness of stature.These people drew their name from their principal article of food, Mountain Sheep, although, when winter set in, elk and deer were Often killed when coming down before a driving snow storm.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.