hardly-served

Updated: June 5, 2025

Lieutenant Fremont mentions an incident illustrative of the homeless life which many of these wanderers of the wilderness live: "Among them," he writes, "I had found an old companion on a northern prairie, a hardened and hardly-served veteran of the mountains, who had been as much hacked and scarred as an old moustache of Napoleon's Old Guard. He flourished in the soubriquet of La Tulipe.

John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott - Christopher Carson