Wounds his man--Duels in the Rocky Mountains in Olden Times, 68


CHAPTER V.

The Fall Hunt--McCoy of the Hudson's Bay Company organizes a Trapping
Party which Kit Carson joins--The Hunt--Scarcity of Beaver on Humboldt
River--The Party is divided--Kit Carson with a majority of the
Men goes to Fort Hall--Hardships and Privations met with--Buffalo
Hunt--All their Animals stolen in the Night by a 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