Immediately upon Mr.Carson's arrival there, he was so well known and his capabilities so well understood, that he received an earnest application to take the position of hunter for the fort.

He accepted the office and filled it for eight years with such skill and fidelity that never did one word of disagreement pass between him and his employers.

His duties were to supply a camp of about forty men with all the animal food they needed.
When game was plenty, this was an easy task, but often wandering bands of Indian hunters would sweep that whole region around rendering the labors of Mr.Carson extremely difficult.

For unfrequently he would wander from sunrise to sunset over prairie and mountain, in pursuit of game; but rarely did he return without a mule load.

At times he extended his hunting trips to a distance of fifty miles from the fort.