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

CHAPTER VII {II of Vol. II}

An Arrival from Fort Hall--An Account from Oregon--Return
of two of my companions to the States--A startling
Condition--An Indian Guide--A Farewell--{vi} How a
Horse studies Geology--A Camp--Dog Mutton superseded--A
Scene--Sheetskadee--Butes--Desolation--Midnight Scene
in the Mountains--Indian Jim and the Buffalo--Hungry
Stomachs--A fat Shot--Fine Eyesight--An old Trapper picked
up--Beautiful Desert--"Hos, Hos"--Meek the Bear Killer--A wild
Vale--Steamboat Spring--Natural Soda Fountains--Neighbouring
Landscape--A hard Drive--Valley of Chasm--Nature's Vase--A
heavy March--Passing the Mountains--A charming Gorge--Entrance
into Oregon--The South Branch of the Columbia--Fort Hall and
its Hospitalities 274