The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated | Page 4

Party of
Blackfeet Indians--Arrival of McCoy from Fort Walla Walla--The
Rendezvous--Kit Carson joins a strong Band--The Small Pox among

the Blackfeet Indians--The Crow Indians on good terms with the
Whites--Intense Cold--Immense Herds of Buffalo--Danger of their
goring to death the Horses--The Spring Hunt--The Blackfeet Indian
Village overtaken--A desperate Fight with these Indians--The
Rendezvous--Sir William Stuart and a favorite Missionary--Kit Carson
goes on a Trading Expedition to the Navajoe Indians--The Return--He
accepts the post of Hunter of the Trading Post at Brown's Hole, 106
CHAPTER VI.
Bridger and Carson trapping on the Black Hills--The Main Camp--The
Rendezvous--Winter Quarters on the Yellow Stone--Carson with forty
men in a desperate fight with the Blackfeet Indians--A
Council--Sentinel posted--One Thousand Warriors come to punish the
Trappers--The War Dance--The Courage of the Savages deserts
them--Winter Quarters--The Spring Hunt--Another Fight with the
Blackfeet--Continued Annoyances--The Trappers abandon the
Country--The Rocky Mountains and Alps compared--Other Trapping
Expeditions--Beaver becoming scarce--Prices of Fur reduced--Kit
Carson and the Trappers give up their Vocation--The Journey to Bent's
Fort--Mitchell the Mountaineer--His Eccentricities, 127
CHAPTER VII.
Kit Carson is employed as Hunter to Bent's Fort--His Career for Eight
Years--Messrs. Bent and St. Vrain--The commencement of his
Acquaintance with John C. Fremont on a Steamboat--Is employed as a
Guide by the Great Explorer--The Journey--Arrival at Fort
Laramie--Indian Difficulties--The business of the Expedition
completed--Return to Fort Laramie--Kit Carson goes to Taos and is
married--He is employed as Hunter to a Train of Wagons bound for the
States--Meeting with Captain Cook and four companies of U.S.
Dragoons on Walnut Creek--Mexicans in Trouble--Kit Carson carries a
Letter for them to Santa Fé--Indians on the Route--His safe
Arrival--Amijos' advance Guard massacred by the Texians--The one
Survivor--The Retreat--Kit Carson returns to Bent's Fort--His
Adventures with the Utahs and narrow escape from Death--The

Texians disarmed--The Express Ride performed, 147
CHAPTER VIII.
Kit Carson visits Fremont's Camp--Goes on the Second Exploring
Expedition--The Necessary Arrangements--Trip to Salt
Lake--Explorations there--Carson is dispatched to Fort Hall for
Supplies--Their Operations at Salt Lake--The Great Island--The
Journey to the Columbia River in Oregon--Incidents on the
Route--Tlamath Lake--The Journey to California--The Trials and
Privations met with while crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains--Mr.
Preuss is lost but finds the Party again--Arrival at Sutter's Fort in a
Destitute Condition--Two of the Party become deranged--The Route on
the Return Trip--Mexicans come into their Camp asking Aid and
Protection--Indian Depredations--Carson and Godey start on a Daring
Adventure--The Pursuit--The Thieves overtaken--These Two White
Men attack Thirty Indians--The Victory--Horses retaken--The Return to
Camp--One of their Companions killed--The Journey
continued--Arrival at Bent's Fort--The "Fourth of July" Dinner, 178
CHAPTER IX.
Kit Carson concludes to become a Farmer--He is joined in the
Enterprise by a Friend--They build a Ranche on the Cimeron
River--Descriptions of Mexican Customs and Country--Fremont once
more at Bent's Fort--Express sent for Kit Carson to join the Expedition
as Guide--The Ranche Sold, and the Departure--The Third Expedition
and its Explorations--Difficulties with the
Mexican-Californians--General Castro's Orders to leave the
Country--Determination to Fight--Fremont goes to Lawson's
Fort--Fremont and his Men encounter a Thousand Indians--The Battle
and the Victory--The news that War had been declared between the
United States and Mexico reaches Fremont--Lieutenant Gillespie
rescued from the Indians--Three of the party killed in the Night by
Indians--The Savages repulsed--The Burial of Comrades, 232
CHAPTER X.

Fremont en route for California--His men are anxious to punish the
Tlamath Indians--Kit Carson, in command of ten Men, is sent on ahead
to reconnoitre--He discovers the main Village of these Indians--The
Attack and the Victory--Beautiful Lodges--The Trophies mostly
destroyed--Fremont saves Kit Carson's Life--The Journey
resumed--The Sacramento Valley--An Indian Ambuscade--One Savage
defies the Party--Kit Carson shoots him--The Tlamath Indians still on
the War Path--Another Lesson given to them--A Thief is shot--Arrival
at Lawson's Trading Post--A period of Inactivity--A Detachment sent
to capture Sonoma--Prisoners taken--The Mexicans come to punish the
Americans--Their Courage deserts them--The Retreat--The
Pursuit--Fremont goes to Sutter's Fort and establishes a Military
Post--Monterey is taken by the American Squadron--Fremont marches
there--Further Operations--The taking of Los Angelos, 261
CHAPTER XI.
Kit Carson is sent Overland as Bearer of Dispatches to
Washington--The Preparation and the Start--The Journey--Privations
and Sufferings--Meeting with General Kearney--The General takes
Carson as his Guide and sends on the Dispatches by Fitzpatrick--The
March--Arrival at Warner's Ranche--Mexicans on the
Road--Preparations for a Battle--The Battle--Disastrous
Consequences--Kit Carson and Lieutenant Beale offer to run the lines
of the Mexican Sentinels and carry Information to San Diego of
Kearney's critical position--The Daring Undertaking--The Sufferings
they encountered--Their Arrival--Reinforcements sent out--Lieutenant
Beale is Delirious from the Privations he has undergone--Gen. Kearney
and his Command finally reach and join the other American Forces in
California, 274
CHAPTER XII.
A Command of Six Hundred Men is sent against Los Angelos--The
Mexican Army evacuates the Town--Its Capture--Rumors of an Attack
to be made on Fremont's Command--The Mexicans surrender--The
Winter Quarters--Kit Carson is ordered to carry Dispatches overland to

Washington--Lieutenant Beale accompanies him--A Night