CHAPTER VII.. Kit Carson Is Employed As Hunter to Bent's Fort--His Career for

Kit Carson is employed as Hunter to Bent's Fort--His Career for Eight Years--Messrs. Bent and St. Vrain--The commencement of his Acquaintance with John C. Fremont on a Steamboat--Is employed as a Guide by the Great Explorer--The Journey--Arrival at Fort Laramie--Indian Difficulties--The business of the Expedition completed--Return to Fort Laramie--Kit Carson goes to Taos and is married--He is employed as Hunter to a Train of Wagons bound for the States--Meeting with Captain Cook and four companies of U.S. Dragoons on Walnut Creek--Mexicans in Trouble--Kit Carson carries a Letter for them to Santa Fe--Indians on the Route--His safe Arrival--Amijos' advance Guard massacred by the Texians--The one Survivor--The Retreat--Kit Carson returns to Bent's Fort--His Adventures with the Utahs and narrow escape from Death--The Texians disarmed--The Express Ride performed, 147