Meek Falls into the Hands of Crows--The Story as He tells It--He Packs Moccasins, and Bears the Jeers of the Fair Sex--Bridger's Camp Discovered and the Lie Found out--A Desperate Situation--Signaling the Horse-Guard--A Parley with Bridger--Successful Strategy--Capture of Little-Gun--Meek Set at Liberty with a New Name--A Fort Besieged by Bears--A Lazy Trapper--The Decoy of the Delawares--Winter Amusements--The Ishmaelite of the Wilderness--March through the Crow Country--Return to Green River--Punishment of the Bannacks--Consolidation--An Excursion--Intercepted by Crows--A Scattered Camp--The Escape, 189 CHAPTER XV. An Express from Fitzpatrick--The Approach of Missionaries Announced--The Caravan Welcomed by a Party of Trappers--Noisy Demonstrations--Curiosity of the Indians--The Missionary Ladies--Preparations in the Indian Villages--Reception of the Missionaries by the Nez Perces and Flatheads--Kind Treatment from the Hudson's Bay Company--The Missionaries' Land of Promise--Visit to Fort Vancouver--Selection of Missionary Stations, 201 CHAPTER XVI. The Den of Rattlesnakes--The Old Frenchman--How to Keep Snakes out of Bed--The Prairie Dog's Tenants at Will--Fight with Blackfeet--Policy of War--A Duel Averted--A Run-away Bear--Meek's Best Bear Fight--Winter Quarters on Powder River--Robbing Bonneville's Men, 214 CHAPTER XVII. A Dissipated Camp--A Crow Carousal--Picked Crows--A Fight with Blackfeet--Manhead Killed--Night Visit to the Blackfoot Village--"Cooning a River"--Stanley the Indian Painter--Desperate Fight with Blackfeet--"The Trapper's Last Shot"--War and Peace--In the Wrong Camp--To Rendezvous on Wind River--Mr. Gray, and His Adventures--Massacre of Indian Allies--Capt. Stuart Robbed by Crows--Newell's Address to the Chiefs, 225 CHAPTER XVIII. Decline of the Fur Trade--Wild Scenes at Rendezvous--A Missionary Party--Entertained by a War Dance--Meek in Armor--Deserted by his Indian Spouse--The Pursuit--Meek abuses a Missionary and Kidnaps his Wife--Meek's Black Eyed Daughter--Singing for a Biscuit--Trapping Again--A hot March, and Fearful Suffering from Thirst--The Old Flathead Woman--Water at Last, 237 CHAPTER XIX. A Chat about Buffalo Hunting--Buffalo Horses--The Start--The Pursuit--The Charge--Tumbles--Horsemanship--The Glory of Mountain Life--How a Nez Perce Village Hunts Buffalo--Kit Carson and the Frenchman on a Run--Mountain Manners, 246 CHAPTER XX.