In whatever position you are, in whatever business you are engaged, be as faithful and perfect as possible.

Promotion and prosperity are then almost sure.
The task which now devolved upon Mr.Carson was, with his rifle and such aid as he might need, to supply all the animal food which twenty men might require.

He performed this duty, not only to the satisfaction of all, but such was his energy, his skill, his spirit of self-sacrifice, his entire devotion to his work, and the wonderful success which attended his exertions, that he secured universal affection and esteem.
With the returning sun of spring, Mr.Carson, having well performed his task, joined Mr.Bridger and four other trappers, to go to what were called the Black Hills.

This was a limited mountainous range, far away in the north, extending a distance of about a hundred miles between the Laramie and Sweetwater rivers.

These streams were tributaries of the north fork of the Platte.