This very year I saw the linnets at work thatching, just before a snow-storm which covered the ground several inches deep for a number of days. They struck work and left us for a while, no doubt in search of food.

The crew of Daggett's vessel carried their mattresses ashore, took possession of the bunks, lighted a fire in the stove, and made their preparations to get the camboose ashore next day, and do their cooking in the house, as had been practised previously to quitting the island.

As Cooper pointed out, among the foremost of the nineteenth-century Gros Ventre character ideals were strongheartedness and the ability to bear and forgo.

Many older Gibsons have become collector's items: […] But older Gibsons are also good player's guitars.