Purgatoire
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Wooton had an adventure once while he was stationed at Bent's Fort during a trading expedition with the Utes, on the Purgatoire, or Purgatory River,58 about ten or twelve miles from Trinidad.
From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill
Jim Finch, an old trapper that went under by the Utes near the Sangre de Cristo Pass, a few years ago, had told me there was lots of beaver on the Purgatoire.
From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Henry Inman
I'm off again, I can't say it; but if this child could have got off his animal, he'd took hair and gone down the trail for Purgatoire.
From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Henry Inman
The French trappers later changed the name to Purgatoire.
From Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History by F. C. Grable
The delightful Purgatoire has become a deadly bore, and the enchanting Mephistopheles has been riddled as by a hailstorm.
From Musical Memories by Edwin Gile Rich
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