Category: Adventure
The Bremen Lighter--A Parting Jollification--The good Ship “Constitution”--The Steerage--The Last of Germany--Sea-sickness--Life on Board--The Channel--Sea Sights--A Shark--A Wreck--Bathing at Sea--Dancing on Board--Stormy Weather--The Coast of Newfoundland--Festivities on the...
A backwoods gun--Anecdote of a panther--My dog “Bearsgrease”--Collmar’s house--Hunting a tame bear--Hunting expedition--Hailstorm--Spirit-seller--Route of Eastern Indians; their...
20. CHAPTER VIII.The Ohio--Partnership in farming--Fourche Le Fave--Mr. Kelfer--Congress land--My cooking operations--Pig-killing--Decoys used in shooting turkeys--Shooting by night--Salt licks-...
22. CHAPTER X.The winter sleep of bears--The she-bear and cubs in the cave--Our perilous hunt--Erskine--Debating society in the woods--Questions discussed--My proposition--Adventure with a pa...
16. CHAPTER IV.Wild turkeys--Spring river--Traces of earlier inhabitants of North America--An eagle--Quack-doctors in Arkansas--My unsuccessful hunting-dog--Little Red river--German and Polish...
17. CHAPTER V.Scenery around New Orleans--Arrangements of American steamers--Cincinnati and its reputation--Number of German inhabitants--Situation of the town--Religious absurdities; the gir...
18. CHAPTER VI.My comrade attacked by ague--Removal to a new locality--Snakes in the woods--Grinding corn--“Lying” Bahrens--Repeated attacks of ague--Sassafras tree--“An epileptic breakfast”--...
14. CHAPTER II.Good advice to emigrants--Examination of the baggage--New York--Schw--z’s boarding-house and its deficiencies--Aspect of the city--Abundance of fruit--An Irishman’s funeral--Fir...
13. CHAPTER I.A Bremen lighter, and its capacity for holding passengers--An unexpected meeting--Scene on board the lighter--The captain--First night on board--A parting dance on shore--Our ne...
19. CHAPTER VII.Turkey hunting with dogs--American aptitude for barter--Hard life in the woods--Ague--Wolves--Unhousing a bear--Number of widows in the swamps--Postal system in the back states-...
23. CHAPTER XI.Drunken brawl at a whiskey-shop, and its lamentable consequences--Little Rock and its vicinity--Shooting at the “salt licks”--Justice in the backwoods--Summary proceedings again...
24. CHAPTER XII.Bayou Sara--German settlers--Jews--Pointe Coupée--My engagement at the hotel--Levées, or dams, on the banks of the Mississippi--Slave auction--Treatment of the slaves--Guinea ne...
15. CHAPTER III.Lake Erie--Cleveland--Double-beds--March through the forest--Canton--Cincinnati--Lawrencebourg--A burning forest--Deserted farm-house--Wet weather and swollen rivers--A drunken...
9. CHAPTER IX.Surprised by a Panther--A New Hunting Excursion--The Fox--“Stole Away”--The Two old Cattle-dealers--Bear-hunting Extraordinary--Deer-stalking by Night--Duck-shooting--Thundersto...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Partnership with Rutkin--Removing Goods by Canoe--Scalding Pigs “Arkansas Fashion”--Shooting Deer by Night--Disagreement with Rutkin--A Backwoods “Frolic”--Relays of Fiddlers--C...
6. CHAPTER VI.A Wolf--We shift our Quarters--False Alarm--Squirrel for Breakfast--Primitive Mode of Winnowing Corn--“Oiltrove Bottom”--Pawpaw Trees--“Not at home”--Hard Fare--A Panther--Visit...
10. CHAPTER X.Bears in their Winter Quarters--Bruin’s Cave--Our Adventure in the Cave--Attack and Retreat--Pursued by a Wounded Bear--Victory at last--Another Bruin in his Lair--Backwoods Deb...
5. CHAPTER V.A Runaway Couple--Cincinnati and its Religious Sects--The Girl “possessed with a Devil”--I start afresh for the Woods--Bad Sport and bad Weather--Crawfish--Blackfish Lake--A Pic...
4. CHAPTER IV.The Eagle--An Old Settler--My unsuccessful Hunting Dog--The Polish Refugee’s Habitation--An Unnecessary Circuit--Indian Tribe--Little Rock in Arkansas--My Engagement on board th...
11. CHAPTER XI.Whiskey and Bloodshed--Wounded and Alone--A Prize--Return to Slowtrap’s--Little Rock--Deer-shooting at the “Salt Lick”--Logwood Trees in Arkansas--Summary Judicial Proceedings--...
12. CHAPTER XII.Mosquitoes--Meeting with Kean--The Hotel at Point Coupée--Slaves and their Condition--Snipe-shooting--Vegetation of Louisiana--Shooting Alligators by Torchlight--Their Antipathy...
1. CHAPTER I.The Bremen Lighter--A Parting Jollification--The good Ship “Constitution”--The Steerage--The Last of Germany--Sea-sickness--Life on Board--The Channel--Sea Sights--A Shark--A Wr...
7. CHAPTER VII.Turkey-shooting with Dogs--Forest Travel--Scarcity of Provisions--Overcup Oak--Buck-hunting--Buffalo-hunting--Return to the Haunts of Men--Bear-hunting with dogs--The Falling Tr...
2. CHAPTER II.Car-drivers--An Irish Funeral--German Boarding-House--A Pulpit in a State of Siege--Negroes at New York--Shooting Excursion near New York--Railway to Utica--American Canal Boat-...
3. CHAPTER III.Wet and Weary--Out in the Woods--The Forest Mill--A Raccoon--A Pleasant Travelling Companion--My Israelite Fellow-lodgers--Fording the Wabash--A Wet Road--Buck-shooting--Illinoi...