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  • Here for a day he camped with Carmack, a squaw-man, and his

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  • The partners received his advice with the magnificent contempt of the sour dough for a squaw-man, and, instead, spent the day on

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • The partners received his advice with the magnificent contempt of the sour dough for a squaw-man, and, instead, spent the day on

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • The marriage ceremony removed him from the status of squaw-man and placed him beyond moral reproach, though there were men that challenged his taste where women were concerned.

    THE FAITH OF MEN 2010

  • Your people call you "squaw-man," your women turn their heads to the one side on the street, and you do not go to their cabins like other men.

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  • "Over beyond Bonanza that was Rabbit Creek," the squaw-man went on.

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  • Sometimes when he looked at Silvertip, lolling brutish and drunken on the blankets of his bunk, Harlan had wondered what alcohol did for the squaw-man.

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • Was this good-looking young creature a squaw-man at heart, if not in reality.

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • We're purty civilized here in Katleean, but -- wall, there ain't no tellin 'what an Injine will do after he's taken on a couple o' snorts o 'white mule, -- or a squaw-man, either, for that matter.

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • His chief source of self-disgust was his way of taking the information that the Borelands, including Jean Wiley, thought him a squaw-man.

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

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