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it. This done, my companion and I proceeded to deliber-
ate on our future course of proceeding; first, however, Shaw
acquainted me with some incidents which had occurred at
the fort during my absence.

About a week before, four men had arrived from beyond
the mountains: Sublette, Reddick, and two others. Just
before reaching the fort they had met a large party of In-
dians, chiefly young men. All of them belonged to the
village of our old friend Smoke, who, with his whole band
of adherents, professed the greatest friendship for the
whites. The travellers therefore approached and began to
converse without the least suspicion. Suddenly, however,
their bridles were seized, and they were ordered to dis-
mount. Instead of complying, they lashed their horses,
and broke away from the Indiana. As they galloped off
they heard a yell behind them, with a burst of derisive
laughter, and the reports of several guns. None of them
were hurt, though Reddick's bridle-rein was cut by a bullet
within an inch of his hand. After this taste of Indian man-
ners, they felt for the moment no disposition to encounter
farther risks. They intended to pursue the route south-
ward along the foot of the mountains to Bent's Fort; and
as our plans coincided with theirs, they proposed to join
forces. Finding, however, that I did not return, they
grew impatient of inaction, forgot their late danger, and
set out without us, promising to wait our arrival at
Bent's Fort. From thence we were to make the long
journey to the settlements in company, as the path was not
a little dangerous, being infested by hostile Pawnees and
Camanches.

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We expected, on reaching Bent's Fort, to find there still
another reinforcement. A young Kentuckian had come out
to the mountains with Russel's party of California emi-

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life. Contributors: Francis Parkman - author, Frederic Remington - illustrator. Publisher: Little Brown. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1892. Page Number: 307.
    
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