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124 that we would have to fight the entire Canadian outfit of trappers, but we found it quite different, for after the fight they were more friendly toward us than before. We stayed two days and helped to bury Shewman. This was the first white man that I had ever, seen buried in the Rock) Mountains. We rolled him up i n a blanket, laid him in the grave and covered -him with dirt. The funeral beingover, our party started for Bent's Fort.

He acknowledged that it was all his own fault.

The third day's travel brought us to Sweetwater, where we came to the top of a hill, from which we could overlook the entire valley, which was covered with wagons and tents. This was a large train of emigrants from various portions of the East who had started the year before and had wintered on Platte river, the edge of settlement, and when spring opened they had resumed their journey.