CHAPTER XIV.

Carson traps with a party of a hundred in the Blackfeet country -- winter camp among the Crows -- Indian lodges -- winter life of the trappers -- fight with the Blackfeet -- Carson saves the life of a friend, dislodges the Indians from a rocky fastness, and compels their flight -- no more molestation -- the rendezvous -- trade with the Navajos Indians -- fort at Brown's Hole -- goes again against the Blackfeet, a thousand warriors assemble, retire without an engagement -- traps on the Salmon River -- among the Blackfeet, another fight, leaves their country -- Chinook and Flathead Indians -- process of flattening the head. 126