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Updated: June 3, 2025
It would be as "easy as falling off a log" for a party of ill-advised Mexicans to make a dash across the river, and already there had been small private expeditions of cattle stealers. Staring out of the windows at little adobe villages, their huddled houses turned from brown to cubes of gold by the afternoon sun, we listened to all sorts of disquieting gossip.
"There is nothing meaner in the world than a Wolf," he muttered; "nothing; and already I am hungry again." At his fourth cache he scratched indifferently. But the long nails of his paw touched something soft and yielding it was flesh. How had it escaped the Gray Stealers?
This partisan appeared at the rendezvous without his party, and a sorrowful tale of disasters had he to relate. In hunting the Crow country, he fell in with a village of that tribe; notorious rogues, jockeys, and horse stealers, and errant scamperers of the mountains. These decoyed most of his men to desert, and carry off horses, traps, and accoutrements.
The ministers, and even the sultan himself, are not able to resist the temptation of being able to purchase European goods, and articles of value, for less than half their real value. If not the stealers, they are the receivers, and thus they patronise piracy of every description.
Not that he gives us trouble, for he does not, and I rather like the chap, but we have a spite against these Yankee negro stealers," was the keeper's reply, as he led the way to the long low room, where groups of men walked up and down up and down holding the long line of hemp, which, as far as they were concerned, would never come to an end until the day of their release.
She raised her hands threateningly, after setting down the kettle; and Tom shrank back in dismay from an adversary with whom he could not cope. "Not till he brings out the iron he came and stole," cried Tom. "Stole? who stole? What yer mean?" cried the lad. "Here, let me get at him, granny. He ain't coming calling people stealers here, is he? It's your bit o' iron, ain't it?"
A moment after he was assuring himself that the folk he had fallen in with were ignorant of everything but cockering, without knowledge of witchcraft, star-mongering or sortilege the servants of some great Roman, without doubt, which was sufficient assurance that though they might be cock stealers on occasion they were not kidnappers.
Stealers of men are all those who bring off slaves or freemen, and keep, sell, or buy them." In 1794, Dr. Rush declared: "Domestic slavery is repugnant to the principles of Christianity. It prostrates every benevolent and just principle of action in the human heart. It is rebellion against the authority of a common Father.
The whole history of the aboriginal population of this country, however, is an enigma, and a grand one will it ever be solved? New Distribution of Horses Secret Information of Treason in the Camp. Rose the Interpreter His Perfidious Character His Plots. Anecdotes of the Crow Indians. Notorious Horse Stealers. Some Account of Rose. A Desperado of the Frontier.
"Do you steal food, too?" Once More Tom turned on his heel. Harry walked along with him. Jim Ferrers all but walked backward, holding his rifle ready and keeping a keen eye over the claim stealers. "Come along, Jim," called Tom at last. "Those fellows won't do any shooting. Their minds are now set on their new claim. They expect to dig out gold enough to enable them to buy two or three banks.
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