Show CA A jm immortal mortal grand aon and val of pan el boons faw 3 7 7 F el i ott ail ur by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN dines GROVE KAN will ca celebrate lebrat it ita leadem I 1 august 10 it was anigla th there one b hundred crafted rafted years ago that the united state government twit took of 0 akal recognizance of at the santa re fe trail by making a t treaty lost sty with this the pawnee t and osage indians indiana for the molest c d passage of the car caravans she traveling ng between missouri and new mexico so 81 in a serse sense it la 14 the cen can of the santa fe trail tah chi a bummer T non the bothe boone family ot of tb the ardt united ed states slates gathered in kim ken tucky rocky in celebration ot of the dred and flitter fiftieth h auld anniversary of the settlement ot of as that tate nos by dode daniel boone it Is IB an all interesting coincidence deal es that the santa kimb F fe trail rals celebration should call public attention to daniel doone booties B 9 grandson e and rival in odson public en estimation location as woodmah wood mao hunter scout and indian fighter christopher corson carbon for the S santa so to re fe T trail all with alis out at kit hit carson Cs t IB a like ah hamlet det with hamlet out this centennial of the sinta sat r fe trail re really aly ape as up the who whole mary of the winning of the be west for far the santa fe trail led to the acquisition ot of texas taxes the Altu deran war the occupation cu im of 0 california the Over overland latil mall mail the pony express and ad the meet al ing ot at the union a and central rin pacific at ogden I 1 and for forty years kit careen had chand a band in it nil all first he was iden blon tided with bents fort on ill the a arkansas ars kil kansas lima 1 in colorado the flie I 1 famous S le trad I 1 ing post of the famous dent bent D brothers 0 i ere in its time the motet most famous of all the trading posta post west of the it mississippi IS ne ly he be won aa fame as an explorer 1 I mr as 91 guide do 11 for volcano and it nig right lit head hand man a in the calif california 1 expedition RS as scout end ad dispatch bearer as indian agent and he as united states army anay III officer Pas possibly no I 1 fron froat tera had more am to do with an settling the tt ni ext est Certa certainly indr no man b had ad more mom influence for peace wit with b the in indiana hes here 1 is a brief that hints at his bl many acet ac activities tt 1803 born r 1 in madison oil count county ken sm a y uit I 1 to word a 1 0 o 1824 apprenticed to saddle adl r in 1 franly fr lla ban tway to join santa bantu F ft caravan if 11 d 1 in to knob N M trapping trip to 0 salt ban r I 1 by bay 1830 aa z c spi 1 in and ad north rth went wl 1832 1839 40 hunter for bent fort cols colo ando do 1842 44 guide for aalt 1845 45 with lin premont I 1 in C california 1 le aa a 8 mounil uno t telpi nia 1 to 1 amal with olal e a 1863 dia 6 COO I 1 heep rp hew w mexico to C limle lim le 1 IS 6 4 indi indian becot t for new mexico h cor is gt and ad ja colons diw mexico volunteer bra voted bigdi lien oral ll 11 1868 I 1 wit with d deputation ta 1 ot 1 allias dt died poll fort ila lyon C colo col calvin D collea it U 11 A r re tired of hartford conn a kinsman of if kit la Is preparing a genealogy ot of the carson carbon family and saya say kit was a be born lighter fighter it appears that william carson C mean founder of the family came 1 from m the ole 0 north of ireland re d settled in p pennsyl only vanla mol and about 1 1740 ral migrated ignat e d wl with t h the bounce boonee and other families to north carolina there he had bad abundant 0 opportunity ii port amity unity for acquiring a taste for lighting fighting indians he married eleanor mcduff in noth north carolina and had bad seven children the oldest of whom was lindsay father of kit hit bom in 1754 1751 lindsay moved to south carolina about itsu in 1792 he took his bis tarn fam lly ily to Mi madison allson county kentucky ilia his wanderings nande rings stopped in 1811 when he established a home in howard comity missouri he joined with other set at tiers here in occupying coopers fort between favette and boonesboro Boone from 1812 to 1815 hit was the tenth of the fourteen children of lindsay carson all the none of lindsay without exception option went want west after indians indian and anal bidal buffalo there are am desma descendants dents scattered all 0 over gearhe the middle west weft old and the rocky mountain region now that the in dlan died 1 la guarded on an the reservations rager vati and the buffalo buff to Is IB about extinct suc wrote I 1 one of the can carsons 1 I am at a it loaa to know what their descendants will ill do for pastime gium so it in may be as s colonel cowles says say did that kit flit was a imer born fighter but he did not took look the part to he b a sure ore a the he portrait reproduced it from a point paint ing ng 1 in th the capitol at denver deaver does look rather ather w warlike r like anyway till this born barn flechter we waa little bowlegged bow legged blond with a soft note olce and a gentle di disposition position he was only five feet six bix inches tall his legs being too short for or the rest of him bird lie he was longly atron gly bu built t with long arms ma S and weighed about pounds his completion old and hair were rather light and ilia hie eyes were blue he be was honest roth reticent mit and ad modest the indians called kit hit Vili VI alu hints als little blat chief they feared him it Is true because of his efficiency as an a belong man but they respected maps led him far or his bis honesty ho neEty fair dealing and tal peaceable nesa C and ad they loed him for lna is friendliness ile be spoke their lan ian Z laim visited them and played with their aira children the last at a sure road mad to 0 fill their cir favor in time e he came to know knew ill their r habit habata and co customs costouros their ania wa of if thill thinking rig their mode ad of warfare they knew that he know knew and in that toy lay his tr influence tor for pences pence many times time he be acted aal 0 mediator and prevented bloody battles among the tribes AS aa indian agent he headed off ganv n an u uprising p ON lis kit 8 er early 1 y dy days he as hunter and trapper w were ore a time of savage per par I 1 bonal at tes men as enforced theia ir rights a as they saw ill them with rifle pistol and knife at the 1 annual I tons of if the ft fur trader duels t to th the acor M deith were ot at r occurrence mors yet kit hit a dipoli disposition tio was BO peace aid able a and hla his way so its that so ft far r as known be had bad but a one per en encounter countee imd and that we was thrust throat on him in it the early thirties at a to deev Tons Is in the green river coun 7 try ot of wyoming a french trapper named shimar pleaded an Arapaho maid who appe appealed led to kit tor far pro lection she got it if there them upon mounted and rode through the md rendezvous zou with his rifle announcing that he be was ass cooki looking r g for far kit hit kit was instantly in the saddle both am men lived fired together shumar ball grazed kit hit a ecale kit s pistol ball shattered forearm old and caused hla his death kit fell in love with the arapaho ch maid aid and married h her er S she he died after kit had bad become became famous the there a was waa a daughter adine adiline kit hit took her to daughter b hie fi old home 1 in missouri 1 th the homing charming lindal landscape p where kit carson carboa trapped la 13 a view lew from rom the front porch of my cabin in valley feet up in rocky moun tata role 1 rational tims I 1 park tho the land wes was bought from the government ten years before the park ase vaa created in the bella abild la Is long a peak king of the buckles llo ckles kit trapped there with two the winter of 1630 1810 31 in 1875 walls of lila ilia 8 by 10 1 log cabin nd 21 were still standing and the stone ahlm ney ncy slid and fireplace war were intact wan ton ran cam campers P era burned the cabin bouse bome bod boda carried off most of 0 the stone atone work to protect the spot I 1 set up a great slab of pine appropriately cour carved veil other changes wrought by a 4 century of settlement and civilization are worth noting kit hit probably took heavy warth to toll of f the beaver but they grew many again the level land shown in all made ad by the filling of the beaver bearer ponds with salt hilt I 1 ilia he stream beem which still raw hows among the willows was in kits day considerable when eates park became a summer bummer r resort a hotel keep keeper in tahosa V valley I 1 I 1 c Y went upstream up stream threw a do dam and ad di erred a large jones part pan of its in flow to his be own needs trapp trappers incessantly kept after the beaver until only eight individuals we were a known to exist exin in I the many streams stigall of 0 the region then the set tiera waged wor war on an the trappers such bocky mountain lot national park na lineal in 1916 automatically became is a wild life sanctuary now new the beaver bearer are am back in numbers on ill the vcr very it kit car carson trapped a almost as t a century ago their do dams have made mad three sizeable ponds in my front arar t yard sometimes I 1 almost wish kit would come back to save my aspens ashens |