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KIT CARSON, THE PATHFINDER.
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of the West. Fremont contented himself by
climbing up the peak which bears his name
today, but many others had seen it long be
fore, and had only refrained from climbing it
for the very simple reason that the buffalo,
beaver and other fur-bearing animals did not
dwell upon the mountain tops. Yet the re
port of Fremont’s expedition caused consid
erable excitement at the time.
After this first expedition Kit Carson re
turned to Bert’s Fort, where he remained until
May 29, 1843, when Fremont again sent for
him to act as guide for his second expedition.
This time it was Fremont’s purpose to con
nect his last year’s work with the Pacific
coast surveys which had been begun by
Wilkes. The first stages of the journey to
Salt Lake, and from thence to Fort Hall and
the Columbia River, were well known to the
fur trade for years. From the latter point
on to Klamath Lake, Oregon, and to Califor
nia was new even to Carson. He tried to do
his best, but he was in the hands of a leader
who undertook to cross the Sierras with a
pack train where there was six feet of snow,
and with a party only two of whom had ever
before worn snow shoes. Never was there
poorer mountaineering or worse leadership;
but it was not Carson’s fault, he was only
a guide. It was Carson, however, who saved
the party; he pushed on ahead of the others
and finally from a peak of the Sierras caught
a glimpse of two little mountains of the Coast
Range, which he had once seen seventeen years
before. The trapper’s sense of location iden
tified these little peaks, and it was this bit
of Kit Carson’s mountaineering that saved
Fremont and his party. The men by this time
were eating their saddle leathers; the mules
were eating each other’s tails. They reached
Sutter’s Fort, in the Sacramento Valley, on
March 6, 1844, some of the men physically
ruined and mentally deranged from their suf
ferings. So much for military leadership
which should have been mountaineering.
(To Be Continued.)
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