Buffaloes, often in immense numbers, crop the luxuriant herbage.

Deer, elks and antelopes bound over these fields, reminding one of his childish visions of Paradise.

In the streams otter and beaver find favorite haunts.
During the winter, as business was a little dull, Kit Carson and four of his companions set off on a private hunting expedition.

They were gone about six weeks.

Soon after their return, in the latter part of January, a party of Crow Indians, one very dark night, succeeded in stealthily approaching the camp and in driving off nine of the animals which were grazing at a short distance.