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Rocky Mountain adventures : Bristling with animated details of fearful fights of American hunters with savage Indians, Mexican rancheros, and beasts of prey. Giving truthful accounts of the awful fate of hundreds of Overland emigrants amid the snow-drifts of the Truckee peaks, from whence half-frozen men, women and children were carried over slippery cliffs, lashed to the backs of their gallant rescuers