 | Kit Carson - 1966 - 228 pages
...I remained a few days. Becoming tired of the settlements, I took a steamer for the upper Missouri. As luck would have it, Colonel Fremont, then a lieutenant, was aboard the same boat. He had been in search of Captain Drips, an experienced mountaineer, but had failed in... | |
 | Harvey Lewis Carter - 1968 - 276 pages
...acquaintances,128 then took a trip to St. Louis, remained a few days and was tired of remaining in settlements, took a steamer for the Upper Missouri,...Fremont, then a Lieutenant, was aboard of the same boat.129 He had been in search of Captain Dripps, an old experienced mountaineer, but failed in getting... | |
 | Le Hayes - 2005 - 316 pages
...I remained a few days. Becoming tired of the settlements, I took a steamer for the upper Missouri. As luck would have it, Colonel Fremont, then a lieutenant, was aboard the same boat. He had been in search of Captain Drips, an experienced mountaineer, but had failed in... | |
 | Kit Carson - 2006 - 182 pages
...days and was tired of remaining in settlements, took a steamer for the Upper Missouri and, as tack would have it, Colonel Fremont,'* then a Lieutenant, was aboard of the same boat. 34. Col. John Charles Fremont is well known as the greatest explorer of the west during the forties... | |
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Louis, remained a few days and was tired of remaining in settlements, took a steamer for the Upper Missouri, and — as luck would have it — Colonel Fremont... 