He was able liberally to provide for all her wants, to give her as good an education as St.Louis could afford, and to introduce her to the refining influences of polished society.

She was subsequently married and removed with her husband to California.
Sixteen years had now elapsed since Kit Carson left the log cabin of his father, in the then wilds of Missouri, for the still wilder regions of mountaineer life.

Referring to this period, he says: "During sixteen years my rifle furnished almost every particle of food upon which I lived.

For many consecutive years, I never slept under the roof of a house, or gazed upon the face of a white woman." He now, very naturally, began to long to visit the home of his childhood, and to witness some of the scenes of progressive civilization, rumors of which often reached him in the forest.Messrs.Bent and Vrain were in the habit of sending once a year a train of wagons to St.Louis, to transport their skins and to obtain fresh supplies.

It was a journey of about six hundred miles.