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Show Kit Carson Was Quiet. Kit Carson was a graDdson of Daniel Dan-iel Boone and was barn In lb09. Hough describes him as follovs: "Five feH stx, with twinkling, blu-Hray blu-Hray eyes, a large and well-devcioped head, with hair sandy and well brushed back, Kit Carson at IiU best was the reverso of Impressive. Ho was simple, peaceable and qulot In disposition, temperate and stiictly moral In a time and place when these qualities made one a marked man. Yet throughout the length and breadth of the Indian country this little lit-tle man was more feared, slnglo and alone, thin any other trapper or Indian In-dian lighter In all the west. Ho was respected us well as Iea"d." |