New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-09
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mr.. FAasHAM's Travels and Observations in
,he ar West viii be issued from this Office on Sat
urday. We believe it will excite and satisfy gen-
erel interest surpassed by work which has been
issued for months The styleis admirably adapted
% the subject, and the continuous incidents, pri-
vations and perils OF All overland journey to the
Pacific Ocean are calculated TO quicken the pulse
Of manhood and highten the appreciation and en-
Joyent OF the family freside. Starvation and the
bullets of successive tribes Of savages dangers
=hichthe adventurer in a small and ill-provided
oa7t1 dares with almost every mile OF his progress
from Missouri TO Oregon. Mr.. Fsrnham and his
rand penetrated the latter Country by the South
ern route, BIZ way OF the Arkansas, the Colorado
,,f the West and the Lewis or South branch of the
Colau,bia Rivera devious and sterile route
scarcely ever travelled before them, but aboundine
IL the most magnificent. exhibitions of Nature in
her sternness and naked grandeur. His narrative
sss therefore all the charm Of Romance with the
substantial value OF undoubted Truth. By all who
see m interest in our Western territory it will be
oerused with eagerness and delight.
Tbs following extract narrates his approach 10
and sojourn at Browns Hole or Fort David
Crockett an islet of yeldure and genial skies in
che midst of the thousand leagues of beakness and
serili.y which stretch from the Kansas almost to
the Pacifc-and the first white settlement West
OF the Rocky Mountains:
At about II o'clock, we came to d stream OF
good water and halted 70 slake thirst, and cook
the remainder of our dog mutton. Oar animals
rir bad IL n)aS nd
while VIC ate and rested under the shade of tree
It added much to onr enjoyment to see The fam
ished beasts ,egae themselves upon plat of shor
-viry grnsa beside the stream. Some marks o
dragging lodge poles along the well-defned
Grail, indicated TO Us that portion OF the She
ehouic or Snake tribe had lately left Brown
Hole From this circumstance ue began to fea,
what afterwards proved true, hct our hopes Of
Ending the Snakes at that post and OF getting
meat from them would prove fallacious. Om
Slthy meal being finished, We gathered up our lit
lie caravan and moved forward at round pace
Cor three hours, when the bluffs opened before u-
2he beautiful plain of Browns Hole. As we
sered it We crossed two cool streams that tumbleo
down from the sratifcd cliffs near at hand on the
light; and few rods beyond, the whole area
became visible, The Fort. as it is called, pcered
2p in the centre, upon the wirdinr bask of the
Shestskadeo The daris mountains rose around
1t subliyney, and the green fields swept away into
the deep preciptous gorges more beautifully than
l can describe.
Ho- glad is man TO see his home ogain after
-Ieary absence Every step becomes quicker as
ne approaches its sacred portals and kind smiles
greet him and leapiog hearts beat upon his, and
warm lips press his own. 1t is the holy sacrament
9s friendship. Yet there is another class of these
eu1stions that appear to be not less holy, They
arise when, after having been long cut of from
every habit and sympathy of civilized life, long
laundering among the deep and silent temples OF
cLe eternal mountains, long and hourly exposed to
the scsipiRg knife of savages and the agonies o
starvation, one behoas the dwelling Of civilized
1nen-kindrcd OF the old Patriot blood, rearing
their hospitabe roofs among those nights, inviting
The houseless. wayworn wanderer 10 rest; 10 relax
rhe tension of his energies, close his long watching
eves, and reposc the heart awhie among gener.
Gus spirits of his own race. Is no, the hand that
syasps yours then, an honest tonc2 And does II
not distil by its sacred warmth and hearty en-
brace. some of the dearest emotions OF which the
soul is capable friendship unalIoyed, warm, holy
and heavenly Thus it seemed TO me, at all
events, es we rode into the hollow square apd re-
ceived from St. Clair. the person in charge, the
hearty welcome of an old hunter to {" Fort David
Crockett. a room was appropriated iH1medi
atev for our reception, our horses were giuen TO
the care OF his horse guard, aud every ether ar
fangement within his means, was made, 20 make
Ia feel, that within that little nest OF fertility
amid the barrenness Of the great Stony Range ;
Ter from the institutions of law and religion; far
from The sweet lies fthe family relations. and all
those Taneless eadeariua influences that shed
iheir rich fragrance over human nsture in its cu
eivutsd abiding places-that there even could be
given Us the fruus Of the sincerest friendship
Suck kindness, can be appreciated fully by those
oa!S who have enjoyed Ii in such places; who
nave seen it manifested in It's own way; by those
oniy who have s,arced and thirsted in these de-
ssrts aud been welcomed and made thrice well
come aiter rnoa,hs of weary wandering to For,
David Crockett
after partaking OF the hospitality OF Mr. St.
Ciat. stroHsd ont 10 examine more rlautely this
wonderful tt!e valley, 1t 10 situated in or about
latitude a. degrees north; 100 miles south OF
Wind Ri-er Mountains, on the sh,ee,ssadee
prairie Cock) Riyer It's elevation Is some, Sins
more than 5000 feet above the level OF ,he sss
It appeared TO be about six miles in diameter; sbu,
IN, in all directions, BY dsrS, frowain- mountsir,
rising 500 feet above the plain. The Sheetshe
dee, or Greea River, runs through it, sweeping in
beautiful from the northwest 10 tte south
west part OF it, where il breaks It's way through
rhe encircling mountains, between cliffs 600 feet
"a hight, broken and hanging as poised on the
air. The area of the plain Is hickly set with the
rich mountain grasses, and dotted with the little
eoPses OF cotton wood and willow trees. The soil
IS aiilvia! and capable Of producing sbusdany ali
Kinds OF sIoali grsins. vegetables, SC. thas are
raised in the Northern States It's climate is very
remarkable. Although in ali the counrry within
400 miles Of It, TIE winter -on,hs bling SHOWS