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volumes have been written about carson alone As AN has been the ease case with bai many other tig bg 1 barei ures prominent in ti laman liili the american wilderness a great mass of legend has been added to ho known caeti facca about his life and the deme novelists have contributed their share to make the truth about kit carson obscure too often this quiet modest little man has been included in the general category of indian killing buckskin clad I 1 rs and the sensational aspects of his career have been so BO played up as to cause most americans to lose sight eight of his historic importance fortunately farabe for the memory of carson careon the latest addition to the biographical material about him hasteen has been the plain unvarnished story of his life i as glien given by ca carson csori himself to 16 one of his closest friends some bome seventy years ago this Is kit hit carsons own story i of bis 1318 life asit as if was dictated to col and mrs D 01 peters about 1856 57 and never before published until it was brought to light by miss blanche a grant of taos N M who recently edited it and published it at her own expense the story of the manuscript as given in the book which miss grant has pub published lishe d Is an interesting one in itself the story Is 19 as follows col dewitt C ll peters eters surgeon U a A was a close friend and admirer of i kit carson cargon the great grat taos tao scout ho he finally induced him to dictate his life tory story this was written down according to a son on clinton peters it are during cardoes Care ons frequent visits to the peters peter family who were stationed tie ne a at some bome fort near taos probably ab IY pert t union and in the town of ta tao a an a well in all probability moat of it was written down in the old adobe h house ause in taos now owned by the maon sons and called the kit carson house on the street loading leading eastward from the plaza toward the mountains mountain the original manuscript to I 1 for the most part in the handwriting of mrs vetera peters though at times the colonel helped with the writing probably in the year 1857 cole colonel not peters then wr wrote 0 to hla his long life and adventures of t kit carton carson which was wa published in 1851 1953 carson careon never road read the book as a a wh whole Is but read enough so BO he be to Is said aid to have remarked that peters petera laid it ft 0 on n a I 1 beetle e atle too thick this a early ar manu manuscript s was evidently prized bythe by the peats son eon theodore peters pei I 1 who took it to parla paris france here after after his death about 1907 his brot brother h clinton f found 0 und the papers 1 among his brot brothers bees effects while rum making magling around in a cellar on avenue st bt ouen montmartre clinton peters brought the manuscript back to now new york tork and had two copies made the origins he sold old to edward E ayer r for his famous newberry library in chi chicago c ago til the copies came into the 1 handt band of charles E C campor camp of berkeley I 1 I 1 I 1 kit carson I 1 I 1 was w mine when my mr father died dia killed by ft a falling limb I 1 D enter daniel boon was ra my crathers father friend gayb heard board 0 of him he n and its kind were my teachers then trapper er hunter and galas they me a and to shoot hoot and to peak eak the tb truth I 1 taught myself to ride rid woodsman I 1 was VIM till I 1 saw aw the th plains plain and I 1 addled api rolls rod away to the th little old injun town of to bog and the th city of 0 santa re F plainsman I 1 was wa till I 1 saw law the th hills and the trails that westward atward we ran to the tarther hills and the th farthest b ellla Is and I 1 am in a mountain mm man mine were the tb days day of at the tb moun mountain sto men th the daya that are ar now a dreams dream As al ones once w we followed the tb buffalo track we W followed the th beaver tream stream tr ng the tha bever beaver on take and creek in n w woods do till then unknown W r ranged from the th platt to the th baa an joaquin ln from the tha salt gait to the yellowstone Tello old jim DrI deer robidoux doux meek young from the tb rio grande cut face sublette smith and fits fit of tho tb Broken hand none non know knew the th road through ti the th desert du a the th tr aral h r of 0 cliff and clen len none non know knew the tb path to the th western sea dat bat we w that mountain meni mal fremont came cam ever tie tb pass pa with a hard and weathered tw fowl kearney across tb the waste wait with his trooper troop eriL tap twp w asdine and tw I 1 they won ithe h california land I 1 for ro r e uch each may claim bin abts but th s me mountain n men and the th plain men lt know n 0 I 1 that carua a n brought broucht them there wll wall I 1 helped to td hold towe hills hill of ear core for A th the union cliff and crar when xa w aph u 1 ht our right both rod red and while 1 la under the th brry doz ba and that why im general carton now in ray my grand adobe house bou with injun there at th opeo door or la the th hill s old town of taos tana the th all ix toot foot braves brar corn come siding la a with cali dug knit knife and sun run to tell their troubles trouble to father kit and aad I 1 not mv DT foot crier on they call me m friend and their friend I 1 am arn u gh I 1 fought them hard and long for th b e iguls injun richt in the th bar injun r juns way and th tb whit Is 1 mostly wrong but the th injun got fot to earn out our way war so 80 ril ill help him while I 1 can tor for the th injun way to I 1 hear dear its if and nd like the th way of the th mountain mm man the tall crew Cs iclet t batt with the band cut tace face Sub sublett lotte pester peeler alth and fits of th the kwiten hand whether youre uv up and away ay ones one more mor on the th last trail Wh whether ethard youre oters waiting tr hr t h r like alk me a with lh rill rifle e on the th nail call do flare mountain men and the jolet joy of oar reck lex years year when we w pro probed th heart of the th n aboa ahoa d of the pioneers reaching the th height with the th cimarron Cl marron the th ulf with the th grizzly boar bar tr 11 1 11 9 tb the beaver tor for means i to live UT ua 1 free fre as a air doing tie tb work we W t me meant nt to do though little we W d dreamed a med lt it the then the tb drifts rifts la in the th maritall mari mi wall wait for the th march of 0 a million mero 11 I 1 I 1 A 11 calif as a well walt as the ithe permission from clinton peters to publish the story this nil in turn passed to the writer k v and it ii la Is justi just for the reason that the book reflects the real ireal carson that it Is both historically important and nd humanly interesting nd matter 11 i I 1 e I 1 t I 1 I 1 fl I 1 I 1 faoa t I 1 il V j 0 jt W 0 q V ja m f 11 waa III I 1 I 1 I 1 r r 4 A e IN I 1 1 r t 4 11 1 I 1 I 1 it I 1 r 7 I 1 1 1 1 4 IKI 1 I 1 I 1 aj ar A how bow thrilling the affair nor how hairbreadth the escape which carson do da scribes the simple cimpl straightforward manner in which it Is told shows howl plainly why carson was beloved for his modesty which was equaled only by hla his courage and his daring one instance will suffice almost without exception those who have written ot of carson have made much of his tamo famous I 1 duet duel with the french bully bulli captain shuman or and the dim novel type ot of writer eV especially has lold fold it with much sensational deail here la Is them the way cirson carson tells iw of the affair I 1 I 1 I 1 4 k I 1 abr iwo wa in the party ot of captain drips drip AL a large arc frenchman aps ops on ot of th those 0 2 overbearing kind and very strong he made mad ft a practice of 0 whipping every aa man that bebas h wa displeased with wit hand ona that was wa ti nearly arly all 11 II one days day he had beaten two or three men mocho he laid that forthe tor the frenchmen he h bad no trouble to flog floe and rid as for the th ate would take a switch and ud witch switch theia X did not like uch such talk troa from ant ny man so 0 o I 1 told him I 1 was waa or wont Amet american Ican in co camp mp H haavald Haa 1 I said ald nothing but i bior ilot till his rifle alfis mounted his hi horia ana anad til P bearance pen pe arance ranc in front of the earno camp an ai moo oon L as a I 1 saw him I 1 mounted my horse bora an and 4 took the first amr X could tot ft hold bold of which was wai a fillo pd op to him and demanded of ot hirrill him if I 1 WAN wai the one he intended to oar lore were touching touch lne ile n said aid no but at the same time drawing hla his guna run a ika ii could have a fair shot hot at mo me I 1 was waa prepared and allowed hernto dra draw whis hla iron gun we both bath fired at the sometime mine Same time all prevent saying but an one report waa heard board I 1 shot hot him the arm and blo hi ball passed my head bead cuttler my hair and the powder burning my eye Ts the atlo MUSA of his hi ran gult tili ray my head bead when he fired daring oar stay lay in camp we had no more mor bo bother thor with this bully of a frenchman 1 1 thus does docs carson dismiss tola this binef ind dent which many expand into pages of thrilling detail n nor ards does I 1 h b 6 sey scy anything about thella the abet i recorded by reliable historians that chiti shimar begged for his life after his first jihor failed and that carmont stayed oil big hand when bel belban bad his enemy ene myat at bis I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 mercy 11 1 1 X not the least of the luter cist t if book ail the one authoritative 11 of kit carson lies not anlyn the careful e editing by miss grant and j thi the plia ani in footnotes which supplement the tr at m but also the old photographs levei never b before pu b lashed and the of his death aa on lay 23 1668 1 tl lort lyon colo A 0 st 1 S X ff A i 10 z 1 y X si 1 1 |