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"Big band" Quotes from Famous Books

... much of the sheep business, and much about the art of running a big band over that sparse range, in which this green valley lay like an oasis, a gladdening sight seldom to be met with among those sulky hills. She said she hoped her father would find a place for him, ...

— The Flockmaster of Poison Creek • George W. Ogden

... the other," said Rogers, "but I don't believe any big band would venture down here. The hope to frighten ...

— The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis • Joseph A. Altsheler

... "They're scouts from a big band of Shawnees now making toward Tygart's Valley," I informed him. "Can't we learn something ...

— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter

... again. There were two at Rock Creek, but they were uninteresting—did not wear "chaps," pistols, or even big spurs. At the Bird-Tail not one sheep was to be seen—every one had been sheared, and the big band driven back to its range. Miss Duncan is a pretty girl, and unaffected, and will have a delightful visit at this Western army post, where young girls from the East do not come every day. And then we ...

— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe

... stragglers, it might be sending the lad to certain death, for Plodder had said in so many words the Sioux about him had declared for war, had butchered three ranchmen on the Dry Fork, had fired on and driven in his herd guards and wood choppers, and, what started with Lane Wolf's big band, would spread to Stabber's little one in less than no time, and what spread to Stabber's would soon reach a host of the Sioux. Moreover, there was another reason. It would give Field opportunity for further conference with—inmates of the trader's household, ...

— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King