Show Resourceful J t Carson Ills lIis Remarkable Work as a for the Government S There was needed a L to the government at Washington ho better could servo at this than this little rider Kit Carson arson sara Emerson Hough in Outing He Ha started on Sept 15 5 and had bad won Ion across th Roc Rocky ley mountains when he met General Kear column and was order ordered to return to California In this return the Cear ear f q nry column was waa assailed by the Califor California t lila nia Mexicans stern fighters themselves who pushed forces Into a des i situation The beleaguered troops needed a messenger out to San Diego Kit Carson arson and Lieutenant Beale a of the navy I undertook the task The hardships ot of the march wrecked the mind and body or of Beale who was an invalid for tor two years cars thereafter It was nothing to Kit Carson In darch 1St he was started once more as a dispatch bearer to Wash Vash ington This time ho he met the Indians on the Gila l fought U them got through gUi crossed New c Mexico descended c the Ar Arkansas kansas river and In the of at June arrived at after aCter having made mIles mUes In three months time The journey journe requires little IUlo more than han three days now but we do not make It horse ack At Washington mE Si rt of nf rin ard for his services Carson was appointed 1 j lieutenant ot of th the rifle corps ot the the United J States army His Hi commission however was never neer ratifIed though did not learn until some seine months later lie He was r sent back to California n with h lie crossed d th Missouri river foUght the J at the Point of oC Rocks got through them passed the and had won as far ar through as the Virgin ln river before he met his n next Indian right fight He and fifteen companions hers here stoOd oft off i ZOO Indians In time he reached Mon I terey and later simply to keep himself lt In pr took st service rIe against the I ans on or the border for tor a time There was no man o of all those known to the tho army who had the ye re sources or was so well Qualified as a dis patch rIder as on Ho He was sent back once more marl to Washington ton In the spring g of ISIS The I frame of any h ether man t himself had been ab by these journ too far racked to en able him to make this long and hazardous trip The sous ot of most mEn would have hao alien them long ert thiS Yet this hard hardy t tough Ugh little man lust Just big enough nou h for stead steady riding cb cheerfully this third journey 0 Ur ne y a r ssu nt as dis patCh ii ri l s of fl tle io 10 mantle had Incidents In the his tory of this bra man Indeed In all western hIstory at the tame ness or of ranching and horse trading and I wagon trafficking Ion longing on once e more for i the freedom ot of the trap trapping trail Kit Carson sent seat word his ola ol friends the freo Creo traders of the Recies and muSe made up a party of eighteen lon longhaIred haired Ulen They sallied forth with rifle and axe and pack and Jingling ling trap chains in the fashion of the past PItt makIng I once more doe Into the heart of the They visited sited the Arkansas the Gr Green n t te c Grand the the Lara the loved a aud d lovable arks of i the w mountains ta They came c back through Z the mountaIns un with a d fur They said It was their last trail that they had visited the tho streams which thy they loved In order that the thoy ml might ht shake hands with and say goodbye The expedition 1 was made for sheer love of the old life whIch they knew had now gone by forever |