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Updated: June 13, 2025
Remember, steer by the sun; keep your main lines of travel; don't try to remember trees and mudholes; and if you get lost, you make two smokes well apart and stay right there and holler every once in awhile; some one will be sure to come." So about eleven o'clock the boys set out eagerly. As they were going Blackhawk called to the others, "First to carry out his job wins a grand coup!"
"Get the coffee pot and then sling the reins of Lightning and Buster on your arm and come with me, Tom," said Mr. Wilder. "I'll take Blackhawk, because he's still cranky, and the other two." The ranchman, however, let the ponies lead him more than he led them, for he knew their instinct would take them to the nearest water.
He volunteered to discipline Char-less if he should ill-treat any of the others, and was about to administer grievous personal punishment for some trifling offense, when Blackhawk gave him a warning that had good effect. Yan's note-book was fully discussed and his drawings greatly admired. He set to work at once with friendly enthusiasm to paint the Boilers' teepee.
"How far is it from here to that tree?" he would ask, and when each had written down his guess they would measure, and usually it was Woodpecker or Blackhawk that came nearest to the truth. Guy still held the leadership "for far sight," for which reason he suggested that game whenever a change of amusement was wanted.
I was made for the open, I guess. There were wagon trails in every westerly direction from all the Mississippi ferries and landings; and the roads branched from Dubuque southwestward to Marion, and on to the Mormon trail, and northwestward toward Elkader and West Union; but I had to follow the Old Ridge Road west through Dubuque, Delaware, Buchanan and Blackhawk Counties, and westward.
Mike sketched rapidly as she worked, and she turned as she heard him mutter a disgusted curse. "These are angular readings from our present position," he said in an annoyed tone. "Get the Cow to rework them into a solar pattern." "Yes, sir, Chief Blackhawk, sir. What did you think I was doing?" "You're getting them into the proper houses for a horoscope. I want a solar pattern.
Strapping himself down in the console seat, he flipped the switch that would connect him with Systems Control Officer Bessandra Khamar at the console of the ship's big computer, acronymically known as Sad Cow. "Aiee-yiee, Bessie! It's me, Chief Blackhawk!" he said irreverently into the mike. "Ready to swing this buffalo!"
I've seen my husband and Blackhawk climb that hill together. He talked how the red man and the white man could live together. But poor old Blackhawk what he didn't know was how many white man there was. After the war when he was beaten but not conquered in his heart they took him east Washington, Philadelphia, New York and when he saw the white man's cities it was a different Indian came back.
We took two hours and a half for the ascent of the mountain, and came down in about twenty minutes. We descended ungracefully the way the Irishman claimed that the toad walked, viz.: "git up and sit down." Mount Utsa-yantha I use the accepted orthography as found in the Blackhawk dictionary has a legend also.
The richest mines being worked were the Bobtail, Gregory, and others, in Gregory gulch between Mountain City and Blackhawk. The other principal gold diggings were some seventy miles further south, near the present site of Leadville. These I did not then visit. Nearly all of these mills had been brought out and located during the year 1860. Ours was about the last one to arrive that season.
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