Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . hey couldsatisfy their wants; the governor, who was also the govern-ment, welcomed, them because by means of exorbitantduties and confiscations on pretexts he grew rich. Thetrade increased rapidly. The boundary was not yet outlinedand Lieutenant Pike came out for the government in 1806,ostensibly to find where Red River might be. Instead oflooking for Red River, however, he struck north, from wherePueblo now stands, into the mountains in wi
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . hey couldsatisfy their wants; the governor, who was also the govern-ment, welcomed, them because by means of exorbitantduties and confiscations on pretexts he grew rich. Thetrade increased rapidly. The boundary was not yet outlinedand Lieutenant Pike came out for the government in 1806,ostensibly to find where Red River might be. Instead oflooking for Red River, however, he struck north, from wherePueblo now stands, into the mountains in winter, with hisparty absolutely unprepared for such conditions, and,floundering around in a blind sort of way, losing men andhorses in needless exposure, he turned back and succeededin finding a Spanish trail, which he followed down into SanLuis Valley, where, on the west side of the Arkansas, in de M^jico, ser. ii., torn i., pp. 375-558. Also see Appendix R, p. 489, J. Report; English translation of Escalantes diary from Santa F^to the Moki Towns, by Philip Harry. Also see H. H. Bancrofts History of thePacific States, vol. xxv., p. 35. pr. Wolpi, Arizona This is one of the Moki villages. It is on the end of a narrow mesa or promontory of cliff about seven hundred feet above the valley. Two other villages occupy the same mesa behind the point of view. Photograph by Ben Wittick, Albuquerque, N. M. The Fur Hunters 35 what was indisputably Spanish territory, in January, 1807, hebuilt a fort! He was soon captured by the Spanish troops,taken to Santa Fe and Chihuahua, and later Pike was trying to do has remained a mystery eversince. It has been surmised that he was following out somefillibustering plan of the arch-traitor. General Wilkinson,whose son was with him and was sent back with messagesbefore the entrance into the mountains. In Santa Fe Pike met the trapper Pursley, who told ofthe finding of gold on the head of the Platte. Copper andsilver v/ere alre
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