We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
I have four horses, and they are my everything.
One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.
The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.
We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.