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And hostilities would break out again some day, for the mountain-men of Anatolia would never accept Hyksos domination.

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

The wind of March is as pure champagne to a healthy constitution; and let mountain-men laugh as they will at Highgate-hill, it is no ordinary labor to go and look down upon London from its height.

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

Our Zeitoonli Armenians trudged through the mud behind us at a splendid pace -- mountain-men with faces toward their hills.

The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

Indian trader, who was about to proceed to St. Louis with the peltries, the produce of his winter trade; and as he would be accompanied by a large escort of mountain-men, we resolved to remain and accompany his party for the security it afforded.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

Arkansa or Platte, or in some of the mountain valleys, which are the wintering places of many of the trappers and mountain-men.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

In the attack on the Indian pueblo it was said that Big Nigger particularly distinguished himself, calling by name to several of the mountain-men who were amongst the attacking party, and inviting them to come near enough for him, the Big Nigger, to

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

Indians themselves are such admirable pantomimists, that, after a little use, no difficulty whatever exists in carrying on a conversation by such a channel; and there are few mountain-men who are at a loss in thoroughly understanding and making themselves intelligible by signs alone, although they neither speak nor understand a word of the

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

Skirting a low range of mountains, the trail passes a valley upwards of fifty miles in length, intersected by numerous streams (called creeks by the mountain-men), which rise in the neighboring highlands, and fall into the Del Norte, near its upper waters.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

Coffee, being very cheap in the States, is the universal beverage of the western people, and finds its way to the mountains in the packs of the Indian traders, who retail it to the mountain-men at the moderate price of from two to six dollars the half-pint cup.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

The depreciation in the value of beaver-skins has thrown the great body of trappers out of employment, and there is a general tendency amongst the mountain-men to settle in the fruitful valleys of the Rocky Mountains.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916