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Title: Life of Kit Carson: the great western hunter and guide. Comprising wild and romantic exploits as a hunter and trapper in the Rocky Mountains; thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes among the Indians and Mexicans; his daring and invaluable services as a guide to scouting and other parties, etc., etc. With an account of various government expeditions to the far West
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Burdett, Charles, b. 1815
Subjects: Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e best of his way into camp,which he reached about daylight. The elkhad been devoured by wolves before it couldbe found, and his three companions were onlytoo glad to see him, to be troubled aboutbreakfasting on beaver, as they had suppedthe night before; for trappers in camp en-gaged in their business had this resort forfood when all others failed. Laramie river flows into the JNorth Platte,upon the south side. The country throughwhich it flows is open, yet the stream is borderedwith a variety of shrubbery, and in many spotsthe Cottonwood grows luxuriantly, and for thisreason, the locality is favorable for the grizzlybear. Baird says of this bear : While the blackbear is the bear of the forest, the gTizzly is thebear of the chapparal, the latter choosing anopen country, whether plain or mountain, whosesurface is covered with dense thickets of man-zanita or shrub oak, which furnish him with hisfavorite food, and clumps of service bushes, andlow cherry; and whose streams are lined with
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WHEN THE BEARS CLIMBED SO NEAR AS TO REACH HIM,HE GAVE THEM SMART RAPS ON THE NOSE. LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER CARSON. 89 tangled thickets of low grape vine and wildplumb. The grizzly is not so good at climb-ing as the black bear, and can best manage byresting upon his haunches and mounting withbis fore arms upon the bushes that he cannotpull over, to gather the berries, of which he isvery fond. Only in a condition of hunger will he at-tack a man unprovoked, but when he does,the energy with which he fights, prevents theIndians from seeking the sport of a hunt forthe grizzly bear. He is monarch of the plain,with only their opposition, and has departedonly before the rifle of the white hunter. AnIndian, who would, alone, undertake to con-quer a dozen braves of another tribe, wouldshrink from attacking a grizzly bear; and tohave killed one, furnishes a story for a lifetime, and gives a reputation that descends toposterity. The mounted hunter can rarelybring his horse to approach him near enough

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