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id: 21691
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: The Pioneers
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  In an open space, where a number of trees had been cut down, stood about a dozen skin tents or Indian lodges, some with the curtain-doors closed, others open, exposing the interiors, on the floors of which the dead bodies of Indian men, women, and children, lay in every attitude and in all stages of decomposition. If they know anything at all, they know that white men don't go about in the wilderness empty-handed.


id: 28562
author: Mills, Enos A.
title: Wild Life on the Rockies
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words: 44340
sentence: 2065
flesch: 80
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summary:
  Few trees, however, ever held for me such an attraction as did a gigantic and venerable yellow pine which I discovered one autumn day several years ago while exploring the southern Rockies. The bark is fluted and blackish-gray in youth, and it breaks up into irregular plates, which on old trees frequently are five inches or more in thickness.


id: 10124
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
title: Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
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sentence: 2745
flesch: 85
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  They got a porter to assist her into the depot waiting room and then Uncle John inquired about the next train for Leadville, and found it would not start until the following morning, the late overland train having missed that day's connections. Toward sunset Uncle John figured, from the information he had received at Prescott, that they were yet thirty miles from Gerton, and so he decided to halt and make camp while there was yet sufficient daylight remaining to do so conveniently.


id: 19120
author: Carson, James, Captain
title: The Saddle Boys of the Rockies; Or, Lost on Thunder Mountain
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sentence: 2521
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Both Frank and Bob jumped from their saddles, for the little affair was taking place in the courtyard of an inn that fronted on the street. I believe you're just about right, Bob, said Frank; and it agrees with my own opinion exactly.


id: 17603
author: Duffield, J. W.
title: Bert Wilson in the Rockies
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words: 49802
sentence: 2644
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Once more Bert worked the same maneuver and again the bear fell for it. Had the going been open Bert might have made good his escape.


id: 45627
author: Newcomb, Ambrose
title: Wings Over the Rockies; Or, Jack Ralston's New Cloud Chaser
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sentence: 1678
flesch: 71
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  It's all right, Perk old man, soothed Jack, knowing just how mean his chum must be feeling, with that unseen girl a witness to his upset and her low gurgles of laughter coming distinctly to their ears in the bargain, your intentions were okay, and you certainly did pot him neatly. Their first assignment called for service carrying the flyers over the Mexican border to apprehend a notorious character who had long been a thorn in the flesh of the Washington authorities, since he came and went, mostly via the air route, crashing Uncle Sam's frontier gate with cargoes of undesirable aliens, usually Chinese, willing to pay as much as a thousand dollars per head for an opportunity to enter the States, forbidden ground to those of their race.[1] Having, despite all difficulties, carried out their instructions to the letter and handed over their man to the nearest U. S. District Attorney for prosecution, Jack and Perk were later on dispatched with their efficient plane to the Gulf Coast of Florida, there to break up a powerful combination of smugglers through whose bold and lawless ventures, by air and sea, the whole Southern country was being submerged in a flood of foreign brands of liquor.


id: 37803
author: Rathborne, St. George
title: Rocky Mountain Boys; Or, Camping in the Big Game Country
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words: 52692
sentence: 1866
flesch: 75
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summary:
  ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS or Camping in the Big Game Country By St. George Rathborne Chicago M. A. Donohue & Co. Made in U. S. A. CONTENTS CHAPTER I--COMRADES OF THE TRAIL CHAPTER II--IN POSSESSION OF THE DUGOUT CHAPTER III--THE FIRST GOOD LUCK CHAPTER IV--THE WOLF PACK CHAPTER V--A FIRST TASTE OF VENISON CHAPTER VI--FELIX TAKES HIS TURN CHAPTER VII--UNAVOIDABLE DELAY CHAPTER VIII--PLENTY OF TROUBLE CHAPTER IX--ADRIFT IN THE SNOW FOREST CHAPTER X--TURNING THE TABLES CHAPTER XI--THE BUCK'S HEAD CHAPTER XII--BURNING OUT A HONEY THIEF CHAPTER XIII--HUNTING THE BIGHORN CHAPTER XIV--A WAKEFUL NIGHT CHAPTER XV--OUT FOR A GRIZZLY CHAPTER XVI--THE TERROR OF THE ROCKIES CHAPTER XVII--WHEN MUSIC WAS PLAYED OUT CHAPTER XVIII--A HARD CUSTOMER CHAPTER XIX--BREAKING CAMP--CONCLUSION ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS CHAPTER I COMRADES OF THE TRAIL We must be pretty nearly there now, Tom, I take it! I reckon we'll sight the dugout inside of half an hour or so, Felix; if the description, and the little chart old Sol Ten Eyck gave me, are correct. I'd like to meet him, wouldn't you, Tom? Well, I don't know, replied the other, with a shrug of his broad shoulders, on which the big pack seemed to rest so easily in comparison with the way that of Felix gave him trouble; I must say, that so far I've never run across an Injun I'd care much to cultivate.


id: 6067
author: Patchin, Frank Gee
title: The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost Claim
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sentence: 3434
flesch: 89
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summary:
  One of the two they knew Tad had gone away with, so, after a council, it was decided to take the animals they had captured and make an effort to find Tad Butler. 'Course Tad can ride.


id: 38018
author: Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
title: Girl Scouts in the Rockies
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words: 53661
sentence: 2836
flesch: 84
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summary:
  This started an animated argument between Mr. Gilroy and the Scout Leader, which was suddenly hushed by the behavior of the buck. Now, being girl scouts, you will naturally wear the approved scout uniform.


id: 42042
author: Mills, Enos A.
title: The Spell of the Rockies
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words: 57725
sentence: 2723
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Many forest trees are scarred in the base by ground fires. It was going somewhere with a small cargo of tree seeds.


id: 42030
author: Mills, Enos A.
title: The Rocky Mountain Wonderland
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words: 59239
sentence: 3085
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Few trees in this forest-front rise to a greater height than twelve feet. In some cases--as, for instance, with most willows and poplars--these seeds must in an extremely short time find a place and germinate or they perish; the seeds of few trees will stand exposure for two years and still be fertile.


id: 21466
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: In the Rocky Mountains
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sentence: 2697
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Once more Uncle Jeff fired, but, although the bullet took effect, the deer continued his course. The man in charge of the wagon train realises he is actually the uncle of these children, and agrees to take them with him, becoming their greatly beloved Uncle Jeff.


id: 19419
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: In the Rocky Mountains: A Tale of Adventure
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sentence: 2885
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Another reason which had induced Uncle Jeff to select this spot was, that not far off was one of the only practicable passes through the mountains either to the north or south, and that the trail to it led close below us at the foot of the hills, so that every emigrant train or party of travellers going to or from the Great Salt Lake or California must pass in sight of the house. Now and then a few Indian families might fix their tents in the valley below; or a party of hunters or trappers might bivouac a night or two under the shelter of the woods, scattered here and there; or travellers bound east or west might encamp by the margin of the river for the sake of recruiting their cattle, or might occasionally seek for shelter at the log-house which they saw perched above them, where, in addition to comfortable quarters, abundant fare and a hospitable welcome--which Uncle Jeff never refused to any one, whoever he might be, who came to his door--were sure to be obtained.


id: 42014
author: North, Grace May
title: Meg of Mystery Mountain
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words: 73658
sentence: 4493
flesch: 88
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summary:
  I certainly don't like to have you call me old Jane, she scolded. CHAPTER I. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL Jane Abbott, tall, graceful and languidly beautiful, passed through the bevy of girls on the wharf below Highacres Seminary with scarcely a nod for any of them.


id: 755
author: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
title: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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words: 74942
sentence: 2810
flesch: 73
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summary:
  I crossed a lake on the ice, and then came on a park surrounded by barren contorted hills, overtopped by snow mountains. If his prayer has something of the tone of the imprecatory psalms, he has high authority in his favor; and if there be a tinge of the Pharisaic thanksgiving, it is hardly surprising that he is grateful that he is not as other men are when he contemplates the general godlessness of the region.


id: 33306
author: Lynde, Francis
title: The King of Arcadia
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words: 76098
sentence: 3997
flesch: 80
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summary:
  This is Mr. Ballard, I believe? I'm telling you, Mr. Ballard, there isn't anything them devils won't be up to, he complained, not without bitterness.


id: 20710
author: Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
title: Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies
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words: 79325
sentence: 5756
flesch: 96
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summary:
  Good old Fitz! The general tried to hobble, and Fitz was bound that he would carry him--good old Fitz, with the one arm!


id: 45720
author: Grinnell, George Bird
title: Jack, the Young Ranchman: A Boy's Adventures in the Rockies
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words: 84087
sentence: 3660
flesch: 88
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summary:
  As he looked at these animals they grew larger, and before long Jack could see that they were horses, and that the last one was a man on horseback, driving them. After the wolf had come to be no longer afraid of Jack, Charley neglected it, paying it no attention, while Jack fed it, petted it, and played with it.


id: 45690
author: Grinnell, George Bird
title: Jack the Young Trapper: An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains
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words: 98077
sentence: 3827
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Jack knew, of course, that he had startled the duck from her nest, and that her pretense of being wounded was only a ruse to draw him away from her precious eggs, and looking down on the spot from which she had sprung he saw something white, and pushing aside the reeds with his hand, saw a mass of pale gray down and feathers, and when he had parted this with his fingers, he saw beneath it half a dozen smooth, cream-colored eggs. Before long Hugh declared that enough sticks had been cut, and then, going to the tops of the trees which had been cut down, he cut a number of stakes about eight feet long, which he sharpened at one end, Mr. Clifford and Jones helping him in this work.


id: 42119
author: Aimard, Gustave
title: The Trapper's Daughter: A Story of the Rocky Mountains
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flesch: 81
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summary:
  Does he bring me the number of young men I asked of the nation? I remember nothing further; men resembling demons rushed into the hacienda, seized my sister and myself, and set out at the full speed of their horses.


id: 30028
author: Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)
title: The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West
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words: 117945
sentence: 4005
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Mr. Houston judged from his companion's manner that he had not been particularly pleased at meeting this alleged desperado in broad daylight, but he courteously refrained from any such insinuation, and as supper was just then announced, the young men adjourned to the dining car, and the experiences of Mr. Rutherford were, for the time, forgotten. The company had responded favorably, offering the position to Mr. Houston for one month on trial, at one hundred dollars, his traveling expenses to be paid by them.


id: 43020
author: Ingersoll, Ernest
title: The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond
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sentence: 5247
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Thus a populous and highly enterprising town arose, which became the supply point for a wide mountain region, owing to its accessibility from both north and south; and though it was over one hundred miles--mountain miles at that!--from a railway, more than ten million pounds of merchandise, and five million pounds of mining machinery and supplies were taken in on wagons during 1880, at a cost of over a million dollars for transportation alone. Faith in these mineral treasures has caused hundreds of men to follow the railway, and has set on foot little towns all along its track; and a part of the same faith is all that keeps alive the thriving town, Durango, where scores of well packed warehouses vie with one another in plethoras of merchandise, and thousands of men are exciting each other in pushing, plucky struggles after the supremacy of wealth.


id: 9294
author: Frémont, John Charles
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flesch: 66
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title:
  The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources

summary:
  Leaving entirely the Snake river, which is said henceforth to pursue its way through canons, amidst rocky and impracticable mountains, where there is no possibility of traveling with animals, we ascended a long and steep hill; and crossing the dividing ridge, came down into the valley of _Burnt_ river, which here looks like a hole among the hills. Yampah_ river.


