Men of many nationalities were present, in every variety of grotesque costume; and not a few Indians were there, with scarcely any costume at all.

For nearly two months the Fair continued, with comings and goings, while hill and plain often resounded with revelry.
At length the festival was dissolved, and the mountaineers, breaking up into smaller bands, separated.

The traders, with their horses loaded down with the furs, returned to the marts of civilization.

The trappers again directed their steps to the solitudes of the remoter streams.
Kit Carson joined a party of fifty men, to explore the highest tributaries of the Missouri river.

The region was occupied by a numerous band of warlike Indians, called Blackfeet.