ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE[“We Taught Those Thar Red Demons a Lesson They’ll Not Forget.” ] Frontispiece [Christopher Carson]22[John Charles Frémont]71[The First Buffalo Had Fallen to the Crack of Kit Carson’s Rifle]104[As the Boat Came Whirling Down, Helpless and Inert, Heads Broke Up Around It]130[Kit and the Lieutenant Showed the Three, by Signs, How from the Rifles and Carbines Could Speed a Bullet and Bore Them Through and Through]232