Lucien B. Maxwell, Old John Smith, the Bents and the Boones, with other famous frontiersmen, commenced their eventful lives in the Far West — mere bovs then but whose exploits have since made for them a world-wide reputation. Kit Carson, Maxwell, Smith and the Bents are dead — died with harness on, and on the confines of that civilization which is rapidly closing up the gap at the foot of the mountains, amidst which there would soon have been nothing congenial — so they passed away while there still remained fresh prairies and quiet streams.