blackhawk

Updated: June 13, 2025

Both were expert horsemen and the ponies under them were mettlesome. Indeed, Blackhawk had not entirely recovered his temper since his roping and it was he that set the pace. Yet the riders did not allow the ponies to run themselves out in the first few miles, holding them down to a long, steady lope that covered the ground rapidly.

Frank V. Webster - Comrades of the Saddle: The Young Rough Riders of the Plains

To the top of that tree, how much is it?" "Better not take the top, 'cause we can't get there to measure it, but say that knot," was the rejoinder. "Here, Woodpecker, you be judge." "No, I want to be in this guessing. The loser takes the next turn of dishwashing for each of the others." So Blackhawk studied the knot carefully and wrote down his guess Thirty-eight feet. Sam said, "Blackhawk!

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned