Here too the Indian braves fear not to come and call the master of the mansion, Father,--"Father Kit," is his long time appellation--and they have learned to look on him and his, with all that reverence and fondness with which grateful children look upon a worthy sire. Carson cannot tarry at his pleasant home, much more than to care for its necessary superintendence, for his life is the property of the public; and to the quiet settlement of the Indians into the condition which is happiest for them, so far as it can be secured in the condition of the country and their own habitudes, is the work to which he has wisely devoted himself. He has given to the Indians the best years of his ever busy life, and gives them still, neglectful of immediate personal comfort--or rather finding highest satisfaction in doing what is fittest he should do, because it is the work in which he can accomplish the most good. In the vicinity of the home of Carson, and that of his friend Maxwell, are gathered a number of their old comrades--men of the mountains, who have survived the multitudinous and conflicting events which have come over the spirit of the Yankee, and the activities of the Yankee nation, since the business of trapping first became for her hardy sons a lucrative employment; and here, in the society of each other, and the conscious security of protection for each other, in a locality congenial to their tastes, with occasional old time occupations, and where the rivalries of their predilections can be still indulged, and quietly maintained, they are ever ready after every test to concede to Christopher Carson the palm of being _first_ as a hunter, _first_ as an experienced traveler and guide through the mountain country, whether it be by a route he has, or one he has never before traveled. The stories of his exploits in defence of his neighbors and friends, and to recover from the Indians property they had stolen, since he left the service of the Army of the United States, would of themselves fill a volume, and we have space to allude to but a very few.