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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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er be called Lady Mary.Eor my own part, I bought a horse of Indianorigin and aboriginal habits—lazy, tough, balky,jocose, sagacious, and of a conservative habit—afterward called Dan Rice, Together webought a mule to draw our kit and cargo in acart of the Red River pattern. Each of us hadan India-rubber blanket, two pair of heavy woolenblankets, arms and ammunition, fishing-tackle, be-sides the cooking utensils, compass, hammer andnails, pail, water-keg, axe, scythe, shovel, rope,string, and jack-knife, which we owned in com-mon. Eor wearing apparel the best average was:a soft felt hat, three or four blue flannel shirts,with three or four pockets in each. A full suitof Canada blue or stout doeskin, with an extrapair of trowsers. One pair of duck cloth over-alls. Boots or high shoes, with projecting solesto keep the prairie-grass from cutting throughthe uppers. Whoever goes to Erazer River hereafter by thenorthern overland route will please listen to two TO RED RIVER AND BEYOND. 291
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HORSE-JOCKEYING. items of advice, or skip to the next paragraph.Item first—the same which Punch gave to ayoung couple about marrying—Dont! Butif he insrsts upon going—item second—let himnot travel five hundred miles north with loadedcarts before beginning on his half-continent ofwesting. Messrs. Burbank and Blakely, of St.Paul, have had a line of stages this summer fromthat city to the head of navigation on the RedRiver of the North; and the steamboat AnsonNortimp, owned by them in shares with the Hud-sons Bay Company, now connects that terminuswith the Selkirk Settlement. Let the emigrantoutfit at St. Paul, send his provisions to Fort Gar-ry by the route named, and there buy carts andfresh horses and make an early start. It was a motley crowd. There was the manof monstrous egotism, who passed his life in thecontemplation and exposition of his own achieve-ments and virtues, and men of no virtue at all;the enthusiast, and the man who ridiculed allenthusiasm; the man who believe

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