# Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 395, September, 1848

Author: Various

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75215

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## Summary

We have said that La Bonté was a philosopher: he took the streaks of ill luck which checkered his mountain life in a vein of perfect carelessness, if not of stoical indifference. Nothing ruffled his danger-steeled equanimity of temper; no sudden emotion disturbed his mind. We have seen how wives were torn from him without eliciting a groan or grumble, (but such _contretemps_, it may be said, can scarcely find a place in the category of ills;) how the loss of mules and mustangs, harried by horse-stealing Indians, left him in the _ne-plus-ultra_ of mountain misery—“afoot;” how packs and peltries, the hard-earned “beaver” of his perilous hunts, were “raised” at one fell swoop by freebooting...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/15/index.md)
- [PART IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/blackwood-s-edinburgh-magazine-vol-64-no-395-september-1848-75215/chapters/4/index.md)