It may have been that when their scouts reconnoitred the camp, they found the barricades so strong and the garrison so watchful that they decided it would be too costly to make an attack upon them.
It is not impossible that some one or more of them recognized the daring mountaineer who more than once years before had given their warriors such severe defeat and punishment.

If such was the truth, we cannot but respect the discretion they showed.
Fort Laramie was reached in the month of September 1842.

There as Kit Carson's labors were ended, he bade his commander and friends goodbye and started for New Mexico.

Fremont and his men reached the states in safety and thus ended his first exploring expedition..