CHAPTER V

An Ascent--A Misfortune--A Death--The Mountain of the Holy Cross--Leaping Pines--Killing a Buffalo {xxiii}--Asses and Tyrants--Panther, &c.--Geography--Something about descending the Colorado of the West--Dividing Ridges--A Scene--Tumbleton's Park--A War Whoop--Meeting of Old Fellow Trappers--A Notable Tramp--My Mare--The etiquette of the Mountains--Kelly's Old Camp, &c.--A Great Heart--Little Bear River--Vegetables and Bitterness--Two White Men, a Squaw and Child--A Dead Shot--What is Tasteful--Trapping--Blackfoot and Sioux--A Bloody Incident--A Cave--Hot Spring--The Country--A Surprise--American and Canadian Trappers--The Grand River--Old Park--Death before us--The Mule--Despair 213

{v} CHAPTER VI {I of Vol. II, original ed.}

Bear Hunt--Sulphur Puddle--The River--Wolves and their Fare--Dog Eating--Little Snake River--Thirst--Deserts--Mountains--Mountain Hottentots--Brown's Hole--Fort David Crockett--Traders--Winter and its Hilarities--Love--The Way to get a Wife--A Recommendation to Civilized People--The Colorado of the West--Club Indians--The Shoshonies--An Indian Temperance Society--The Crows--The Blackfeet--Unburied Skeletons--The Arrapahoes, and Citizenship among them--War Parties--Lodge of the Great Spirit--Religious Ceremonies--The Vow and an Incident--The First Shoshonie who saw a White Man 243