What a history could have been written from the thrilling experiences of such a body of men! They had gathered at the rendezvous to buy what supplies they needed and to dispose of their peltries.

It was several weeks before the negotiations were over, when the assemblage broke up into smaller companies which started for their destinations hundreds of miles apart.
Carson joined a party numbering about fifty who intended to trap near the headwaters of the Missouri.

Hundreds of beavers had been taken in that section, but poor success went with the large band of which Carson was a member.

That was bad enough, but they were in a neighborhood which, it may be said, was the very heart of the Blackfoot country, and those hostiles were never more active and vigilant in their warfare against the invaders.
The Blackfeet or Satsika today, are the most westerly tribe of the Algonquin family of Indians, extending from the Hudson Bay to the Missouri and Yellowstone.

They number over 12,000 warriors about equally divided between Montana and British America.