| Show kit carsons niece says say scout illiterate Bo onville mo kit carson contrary to the legend that he h was illiterate learned to read and write as a boy according to mrs bertha carson amick niece of the plainsman and indian fighter mrs amick bases her contention on family correspondence concerning carson in her possession and on direct word from the scouts children carson was born in kentucky in 1809 and came to old franklin mo with his family when he was ten teia it was in old franklin that he went to t school he played with his friends along the banks of the bonno bonn femme salt creek and the missouri itself As a lad in his early teens he watched the first steamboats puff slowly up the big muddy and tie up at the wharf of old franklin leaving school he went to work as an apprentice to a saddle maker according to mrs amick carson worked at making saddles saddle tor for a time then dropped his bis tools to lead the way in conquering the th west |
