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  • Each herd was watched and guarded by half a dozen armed troopers, and such horses as were notorious "stampeders" were securely "side-lined" or hobbled.

    Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Charles King 1888

  • In five minutes the first stampeders were hitting the trail.

    CHAPTER 16 2010

  • The partners had spent a day of visiting and gossip, and in the evening met in the temporary quarters of the Monte Carlo -- a large tent were stampeders rested their weary bones and bad whisky sold at a dollar a drink.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • When the stampeders resented being passed, he retorted in kind.

    THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

  • From above came the voices of the stampeders who followed them.

    THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

  • Crazed with suffering, I thought, looking steadfastly at the man -- one of those wild stampeders, strayed far from his bearings and wandering like a lost soul through great vastnesses and unknown deeps.

    A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE 2010

  • Hundreds of stampeders, after staking on other creeks than Bonanza, had gone on disgruntled down river to Forty Mile and Circle City.

    Chapter XI 2010

  • But with the government seal attached to their holdings, they took it leisurely, the stampeders sliding past them in a steady stream.

    CHAPTER 16 2010

  • With the arrival of the first stampeders, Bonanza Creek woke up, and thereupon began a long-distance race between unveracity and truth, wherein, lie no matter how fast, men were continually overtaken and passed by truth.

    Chapter X 2010

  • The average pace of the stampeders on the smooth going was three miles and a half an hour.

    THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

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