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The ones featuring Kit Carson have him riding into a camp, greeting 20 hostile savages, dispatching all of them and scalping them and riding out with his scalps dangling from his saddle. These books were best-sellers in their day and Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

And it was just pretty straightforward for him. Carson would be permitted to leave the field only after he had captured Navajos; and then, only on the condition that he first conduct a thorough sweep of Canyon de Chelly, a mile sandstone labyrinth in the heart of Navajo country. Paul Hutton: He absolutely guarantees them that he will protect them that he will make sure that their families are taken care of.

This was not majestic, heroic warfare, if there is such a thing. And I hated Carson for that. And Fremont hired him on the spot. But events had conspired against him. There was no telegraph or anything at that time.

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Along the way, he would convey government reports and military orders and news of developments on the ground -- all of it vital information that would bind the two sides of the country together, and help to make West an entirely different place. Hampton Sides: He truly married into this whole Hispanic life in Taos. These men had sponsored him and were sort of the agents of all of these changes that had come to the West.

Paul Hutton: The West offers boundless opportunity, the freedom from all the restraints of family, all the restraints of a shopkeeper's life, and, of course, the promise of adventure, of danger, of excitement. Please see your browser settings for this feature. As Carson recalled it: "we were determined to try our strength to discover who had right to the country.

Paul Hutton: The Indians were a large group. Dayton Duncan, Writer: Kit Carson lived in a world in which there weren't a lot of good choices often. Lupita McClanahan: There was no other way because they said, we're dying off. Americans called them "blood and thunders. So he begins to pursue them east towards Texas. He basically thinks this is kind of like a ghost campaign against a ghost tribe.

Kit Carson had no place in the new west, not the west of railroads, not the west of the slaughter of the buffalo herds, not the west of the Indians' last stand. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Bookreader Item Preview.

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Carson came to see the moment white settlers outnumber indigenous peoples. Sally Denton, Writer: Kit Carson was this larger than life figure. And that if these reservations were going to work at all they had to be located on the land of the people in question. But I think he knows that's not a world that he can operate in successfully.

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