a team of veteran mountain men and native scouts to guide the way. >> carson and fremont were kind of an odd couple from the start. fremont is quite we hll educate. carson, on the other hand, has a dry sense of humor, he's always giving someone else the credit. >> with carson's help, fremont makes a wagon route through the northern rockies. >> they became natural scouts and the government would go to them just to know what was out there. they were walking atlases of the united states at that point. >> you're all i have. >> by may 1846, fremont and