As the route was well known, and there were no hostile Indians to be encountered, it was probably uneventful.
In this valley of El Paso, as it was called, Carson found about five thousand people, mostly on the right bank of the river.

The rudeness of the style in which they lived painfully impressed him.

There was far more comfort in the cabins he had left in Missouri.
The houses were of clay baked in the sun, with earthen floors.

Window glass was a luxury unknown.

It seems almost incredible that they should have had neither chairs, tables, knives nor forks.