. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. insisted thatwe should not have had any if it hadnt been for me;that it would make him too rich. This streak of good luck gave me a new start. Mywife felt better about the trapping business; but she hadno desire to repeat the experience of that winter; and,as I found other profitable work to do, I did not turn totrapping again as a business, though I have done a gooddeal of this work at various times since. And I havealso done a good deal of trading in furs with the trappers. This trading has brought me into acquaintanceship
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. insisted thatwe should not have had any if it hadnt been for me;that it would make him too rich. This streak of good luck gave me a new start. Mywife felt better about the trapping business; but she hadno desire to repeat the experience of that winter; and,as I found other profitable work to do, I did not turn totrapping again as a business, though I have done a gooddeal of this work at various times since. And I havealso done a good deal of trading in furs with the trappers. This trading has brought me into acquaintanceshipwith a good many of the mountaineers. It was throughthis that I came to know Kit Carson, who came to myhome hunting his trapper son-in-law, Sims, one was wintering near at the time. Kit stopped overnight with me. I brought his son-in-law to my homeand they made up their troubles. Kit wanted to staywith me for a while. I took him in, and we boarded andlodged him for several months. We had a good time to-gether swapping yarns that winter, I can tell We intend to tie you to that tree and burn you alive. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR WORKING ON THE INDIAN RESERVATION When the government undertook the task of settlingthe Indians on the reservations, I was given the job ofhelping the Indian Agent of the Fort HaU reservationgather and keep the Redmen within bounds. This wasno easy task. The Indians found it hard, after theirmany years of roving Ufe, to be restrained. They oftengrew discontented, complaining at times that they werebeing cheated and otherwise mistreated. It is a well-known fact that they often had much cause to Indians have been abused shamefully by the whites attimes, and I know it. Our dealings with the Redmenreflect no great credit on us. If the Indians became disgruntled, as they frequentlydid, they would shp away to the mountains in a sulkymood. Whenever they did this, it was my business tobring them back. This task was not only disagreeable,bu
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