These Mexicans were scarcely one remove from the untamed savages of the wilderness.

Young Carson found nothing to interest him or to invite his stay.

He returned to Santa Fe.

The summer had now passed and another winter come.
About a hundred and fifty miles north of Santa Fe there was a small collection of huts called Taos, inhabited by trappers and hunters.

This pursuit of game for food and fur was the employment which was congenial to him above all others.