Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . , and an iron bolt, heated red hot, in order to applythe actual cautery. Notwithstanding this rough surgerj, the manrecovered. After spending a winter at Taos and learning the Spanish language,Carson returned to Santa Fe and became a teamster. Here he secured aposition as interpreter to a tradesman, but there was not enough of adven-ture about such a life for a 3oung man whose chief enjoyment was in thechase and in roaming over the prairies and through the woods. He wasplainly cut out for a pioneer, an adventurer in the best meaning
Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . , and an iron bolt, heated red hot, in order to applythe actual cautery. Notwithstanding this rough surgerj, the manrecovered. After spending a winter at Taos and learning the Spanish language,Carson returned to Santa Fe and became a teamster. Here he secured aposition as interpreter to a tradesman, but there was not enough of adven-ture about such a life for a 3oung man whose chief enjoyment was in thechase and in roaming over the prairies and through the woods. He wasplainly cut out for a pioneer, an adventurer in the best meaning of theterm, and he was never so happy as when pursuing wild game or encoun- KIT CARSON. C5 tering the dangers attending an expedition against the red men. Hesoon joined a party of hunters and trappers to punish the Indians fortheir depredations against the white settlers, though they reallj? set outto trap for beaver. They did not fall in with the Indians, of whom they were in pursuit,until they had reached the head of one of the affluents of the Rio Gila,. INDIANS ATTACKING THE HOUSE OF A WHITE SETTLER, called Salt River. Once in presence of their enemies they made shortwork with them, killing fifteen of their warriors, and putting the wholeband to rout. Such occurrences were by no means nnfrequent, as wp,shall see in the course of this narrative. A small body of experiencedIiunters and trappers, confident in their superior skill and discipline,never hesitates to attack a greatly superior unniber of Indians, and itwas a rare thing that success did not attend their daring. The Indian is Oe KIT CARSON. not fond of a fair stand up fight. He prefer^, stratagem and ambush,aud reverences as a great brave, the warrior who is most successful incircumventing his enemies, aud bringing off many scalps without theloss of a man ; but when a considerable number of Indians are sho\ down in the first onset, the remain-der are very apt to take to flight inevery directiou. Carson joined a compa
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