Stories of American pioneers: Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Fremont, Kit Carson . ver. On they flew — the buffalo gaining atevery bound. His roars filled the air. Alreadyhis hot breath was close upon him, whenthe river was reached and Carson spranginto the water! For an instant the maddened buffalostared. Then he raised his head and bel-lowed. Then he shook his great mane andbraced his forefeet. He kicked his heels highin the air and roared again. FREMONT AND CARSON. IT)7 But all this did Kit Carson no harm,for he was safe in the water, or at leastbeyond the reach of the angry foe. It wasonly
Stories of American pioneers: Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Fremont, Kit Carson . ver. On they flew — the buffalo gaining atevery bound. His roars filled the air. Alreadyhis hot breath was close upon him, whenthe river was reached and Carson spranginto the water! For an instant the maddened buffalostared. Then he raised his head and bel-lowed. Then he shook his great mane andbraced his forefeet. He kicked his heels highin the air and roared again. FREMONT AND CARSON. IT)7 But all this did Kit Carson no harm,for he was safe in the water, or at leastbeyond the reach of the angry foe. It wasonly a question of how long the buffalowould keep him there. The buffalo seemed to understand thesituation. He bellowed and bellowed, thenturned and began to eat grass, keeping hiseyes always on his prisoner. How long this might have gone on, wecannot know. But fortunately Maxwell sawthe dilemma, and crept up behind the buffalo. So busy was the creature watching Car-son, that he did not hear the approach ofMaxwell ; and when Maxwell raised his gun,he fell, shot through the FREMONTS PEAK! At Fort Laramie Fremont found theIndians illy disposed towards all white recently there had been a contestbetween the red men and the white men, inwhich the Sioux had lost ten of their warriors. Their war paint, therefore was still on,and they were ready to attack any white manwho should enter their territory. Fremonts men were all men who hadexplored in these regions; and were, then,used to danger and to Indian warfare. Still,the reports made them uneasy. Carson him-self called it foolhardiness to go on, and sothe little party encamped at Fort Laramie andwaited. 139 ^
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