1844.) CAPT, FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 175 
v us brackish water | fork, an affluent of Green river, the hunters 
and indi t s for the fo dighs. | brought in mountain sheep and the meat 
A few scattered cedar trees were the|two fat bulls. Fresh entrails in the river 
| only improvement of the country on the fol- | showed us that there were I above ; 
| lowing day; and at ia little spring of bad | and, at evening, judging it unsafe to encamp 
oe we had not | in the Botsonns. biden were wooded only with 
wat 
_ even the shelter of ihnes from the hot rays 
_of the sun. At night we encamped: in a fine 
gas of cotton wood tre 
ea 
very eet. es and fort, and aioe the 
camp in Ye pei nt guards. The country we 
were now entering is constantly infested byjc 
war pores of ne Sioux and other In rab 
rg ape aie t e mos! “rain ah 
at Ga nds ahs Rocky S; pa 
ties of whites, bead ling apse & ree 
feated on this ri 
On the Lith w we continued up the Mod 
which is a > aay rable stream, fifty to 
hundred yards in width, hands 
saatetanty waodea with groves of t 
narrow-leaved cotton-wood, (populus an- 
gustifolia ;) with these were thickets of 
| willow and grain eu 
| mingled with this, are saline shrubs and ar 
The new varie Tass which 
pe 2 hk aa een on leaving ee Uintah fort had 
now poate re The country on either 
side was sandy poo ‘j scantily wooded 
with cedars, but the river bo oms afford- 
ood ener were 
killed in the ae eh mped a 
little below a branch of the cnt called St. 
‘\ctanraegnneeoreniernnasiniene 
g 
hc f TOSS hills, where every hollow 
a spring of running water, with good 
a ee, and to-day we have had be 
high mountains grains geet se divide 
the the ‘Pacific from from the Mississi 
So ben ape 
‘ 
when we descended awit WF poe on St. Viain’s | 
somely and 
fe 
pee = aspens; an 
- We ree a x delightfal morning’s 
willow thickets, we ascended to the spurs 
above, and forted strongly in a small as 
grove, near to whic Bove ®: of ee 
wat The hunters "yilled t ne co 
band of elk | broke out “of 
pes were run- 
ning over the hills; and on the o opposi 
river mn herd f buffalo were raising 
clouds o ountry here appeared 
more hg stocked with game than any 
S| part mountains we had esa 
ed; and its aber ndance is ot ton Ta o the ex- 
cellent pasturage, and its dangerous ceed 
acter as a war ground. 
June 13.— e was snow here near 
ur mountain camp, and the morning 
beautiful and co ing 3 
rk, we took our way directly towards the 
summit the dividing ridge t- 
toms of the streams and level places were 
d 
entered again t e piny region. 
ride, the 
und affording us an excellent bridle path, 
ay reached the summit towards midday, at 
an elevation of 8,000 feet With joy and 
exultation we saw ourselves once more on 
the top of the Rocky mountains, an es 
a little stream taking its course towards the 
It was an <flident of - Plate, 
rising sun, 
called Pullam’s fork, and we dese 
‘noon upon it, It is a pr Pay cae gan 
yards broad, ag bears the name of a trap- 
-| per who, some years since, was killed here 
Indians. 
by the Gros Ventre 
i ines in the after 
to it w 
