Frémont’s men, encamped on the desert on their first night away from the Great Salt Lake, built a fire to alert Carson’s party to their location. Carson’s party set out that night, and Frémont and his men followed the next afternoon. If they found water there, they were to build a signal fire Frémont and the rest of the party would leave the next day and, after making a single camp in the desert, reach the mountain the following day. After inducing a local Indian to go along as a guide, Frémont ordered Carson, Archambeault, and Maxwell to set out at night for the mountain. Almost like an obelisk in its starkness, the peak seemed like a reasonable destination for the first leg of their foray across the Great Basin. “One afternoon, while gazing down his intended line of travel, Frémont had spotted a solitary towering peak that appeared to be some fifty to sixty miles distant.
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