CHAPTER VI

Annoying Competition--The Chief's Daughter--Sublette Wounded--Forty Days of Isolation--Sublette and Meek captured by Snake Indians--A Solemn Council--Sentence of Death--Hope Deferred--A Rescue--The "Mountain Lamb"--An Obstinate Rival--Blackfeet Marauders--Fitzpatrick's Adventures in the Mountains--"When the Pie was opened the Birds began to Sing"--Rough Sports--A Man on Fire--Brigades ready for the Start--Blackfeet Caravan--Peaceful Overtures--The Half-Breed's Revenge--A Battle--Reinforcements--Death of Sinclair--Sublette Wounded--Greenhorns--A false Alarm--Indian Adroitness--A Deserted Fort--Incident of the Blackfoot Woman--Murder of a Party by Blackfeet, 103