| 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] |