Dog of the High Sierras Quotes

“An Indian told them the mountain didn’t want to be climbed—that it cut the rope itself in some mystic way, to keep from being explored—that it grudged anyone discovering its summit. And ‘Grudge Mountain’ it has been, from that day.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Dog of the High Sierras

“If you’ll take my tip, you’ll walk out, yourself. The Trouble-Wagon is backing up to this ranch of yours.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Dog of the High Sierras

“Back in Mexican days, Old Man Negley says, those patches of green up there roused the Mexicans’ lively imaginations. The quizzed the few Indians that they hadn’t driven out of here, too. Between imagination and the lies the Shoshones told them, they pieced together a yarn of a beautiful mountaintop lake and a tribe of godlike men who lived up there on it banks, and all sorts of drivel of the same kind.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Dog of the High Sierras

“I wish to heaven I could be a man!” wept the other, lifting a red and wet face from the dogs ruff. “But I can’t. You see, I’m—I’m a girl!”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Dog of the High Sierras

“The sole exceptions to this line of conduct were toward the few Shoshone Indians still remaining in the region. To these natives Grey Dawn was actively and hysterically hostile. Even as certain dogs, otherwise gentle, fly into an unreasoning rage at sight and scent of a tramp, so Grey Dawn was the unreasoningly murderous foe of any Indian he chanced to meet. The trait is not rare among western dogs.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, Dog of the High Sierras