Show C aa ft SOM dw american A merican I 1 immoral or grandson and i ival R of daniel boone 0 W Q 4 r 1 11 wk 1 z 10 A 14 A adrosky dy by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 0 YN CI 1 GROVE K KAN A N 11 hlll celebrate celeb nito its centennial august 10 it wits there 1 tic re one hun bundled dreI years ngi ago that hint tile the united states notates g eminent took 0 fielax recognizance of the santa I 1 fe e arol liy by making V it treaty with etli the kaiue lai ue 1 nul osage indians for tile hie passage of the caravans tOP betwee litkei lit fei ll aoura and new mexico exico so in it ii hellse I 1 it ly IS lie cen en te linial of the smita fe trull trall this lier tile boone fuiell fallibly fal lilly of tile lie united states gathered in N kentucky 11 in III of the lie one litin hun dred and fiftieth anniversary of alie ile settlement of that lint state by daniel 11 noone it Is nn ali Interest ilig coincidence that lint tile lie santa fe trail celebration should call public attention to daniel ri niel flonnes grandson and rival in us its hunter unter li scout mont and andl in tighter christopher curson carson for alie III sunta fe trall without lilt kit carson Is like hamlet lilt ith Ila hamlet nilet out tills this centennial of the santa fe trall trail really opens up lie he whole hole tory story of tile the winning whining of if tile he west for the lie santa sanan fe trall led to the i i of texas tile the Alex mexican ican war the occupation cPa cu tion or of california the overland cherland mall the pony E express and the meeting of file I 1 lie union pacific and central nt osden ogden and for forty years yeara kit carson had a liand hand in it all first he wits identified with kents bents fort n the arkansas in colorado tile alie famous trading post or of tile famous ilent hent brothers in its time tile the most famous of nil 1111 yie kite trading posts west of tile the Alls mississippi sis tie lie won on faine as tin an explorer as guide for Freni fremont ont and tits his right hend man tit in the california expedition as scout and dispatch bearer as indian agent and its as united states army officer possibly no frontiersman tier sinan hod had more to do with settling tile the west certainly no ronn man had more influence for peace with the indians here Is a brief chronology that hints tit at ills his many activities 1809 born in madison county kentucky 1811 taken to howrd howard county missouri 1824 apprenticed to saddler addler in franklin 1826 1926 ran away to join santa V pe caravan 1828 1829 settled in taos N M 1829 1929 trapping trip to san ban francisco bay 1830 32 trapping in and northwest Nor thweat 1832 10 40 hunter for bents fort coto colo rado 1842 44 guide for fremont fi emmonl 1845 with fremont in california 1846 48 three round trips california to washington Washing tun with dispatches 1863 1853 drove sheep now new mexico to california 1864 indian accent for new mexico 1862 64 fought confederates confederate and cavajos navajos Nava joi jos colonel first regiment now new volunteers bre breveted voted brigadier general gener alt 1848 visited washington with deputation of indians indiana died at fort lyon colo zap col calvin D cowles U S A retiree retired of hartford conn a kinsman nf f kit is preparing n genealogy of the carson arson family and says kit was a born fighter it appears that william carson founder of the family canie came front from the 11 orth of ireland settled tit in pennsyl all and about 1740 nil migrated grated with the and other families to north carolina there lie hal abundant opportunity port unity tilty for acquiring a taste for limiting fighting indians ile he married ried eleanor alduff M cufr in north carolina tind and lind had seven children the lie oldest of whom wan father of kit born in 1754 lindsay moved to south carolina about nebout 1780 in 1702 1792 lie he took ills his family to madison county kentucky ills his wanderings stopped in 1811 when lie he established a home lit in howard county missouri ile ho joined with other settlers in occupying coopers fort between fryette and Boone boonesboro from 1812 to lilt kit wito tile the tenth of the fourteen children of lindsay carson all tile the sons ns of lindsay without exception went ent west after indians and buffalo there ire aire descendants scattered nil lilt over the middle west and the alie rocky mountain region now that tile the an m dlan Is guarded on the lie reservations and the lie buffalo la Is about extinct wrote oil one e of the carsons 1 I am at a loss to know what their descendants will do for pastime so it may be as colonel cowles aam that kit wits was a born fi fighter giter but lie did not look the part to be sure tile portrait reproduced from a painting in the capitol at denver does look rather warlike anyway this aarn harn fighter was a little tile bow legred blond with a soft voice tind and it a gentle disposition ile he was only five feet six incites inches tall nil lils ills legs being too short for the rest of blin he was strongly built with long arms and weighed about pounds ills his complexion and hair were rather light and lila his eyes were blue he was honest reli reticent cent and modest the indians called kit vl vi blu nig little chief they feared him it is true because of hla his effle efficiency lency as a fighting roan man but they respected him for tits his honesty fair dealing and and they loved him for tits hla friendliness he spoke their language visited them and played with their children the last a sure aure road to their favor in time ho came to know their habits and customs their ways of thinking their mode of warfare they knew khew that he knew and in that lay ills his influence for peace many times he acted as mediator and prevented bloody battles among the tribes As indian agent he headed off many an uprising kits early days day as hunter and trapper were a time of per ronal encounters men alen enforced their rights ns as they saw them with rifle pistol and knife at the file annual rendezvous of lie fur trader duels to the death were of common occurrence yet lifts kits disposition was so pence able and bif hl way so inoffensive that so for as known lie had but one personal ti comiter and that was thrust on him in tile the early at a rendezvous lit in the lie green river country of wyoming a french trapper named pursued an arapaho Ara palio maid who appealed to lilt kit for protection tec tion she got it there I 1 upon mounted and rode through the rendezvous with tits his rifle announcing that lie ile was looking for kit lilt kit was instantly in III the saddle both men fired together Shu nara nars ball grazed kits scalp kits pistol hall sli shattered tittered Shu nara nars forearm tind caused hig big death lilt kit fell in love with the arapaho maid and marred her site she tied died after kit had become famous there was a daughter adalane Ad allne lilt kit took tier her to ills old home in missouri the charming landscape where kit carson trapped Is 0 view from the front porch of my cabin in tahosa valley feet up in rocky mountain national park the land was wail bought from the government ten years before the alie park was created in the background Is longs peak king of the kit trapped there with two companions the winter of 1830 31 in 1875 walls of lith his 8 by 10 log cabin were still standing and the he stone chimney and fireplace were intact wanton campers burned the cabin somebody bod carried oft off most of the stone work to protect the spot I 1 set up it a great slab of pine appropriately carved other changes wrought by a century of settlement and civilization are worth noting kit probably took heavy toll of 0 the beaver but they grew many again the level land shown was all made by the filling of the I 1 beaver ponds I 1 s with slit the stream which still flows among the willows was waa in kits day considerable when estes park became a summer resort a hotelkeeper hotel keeper in tahosa valley went upstream up stream threw a dam across ond end diverted a B large part of its flow to tits own needs trappers incessantly kept after the beaver until only el eight abt individuals were known to exist in the many streams of the region then the settlers waged war on the trappers rocky mountain national park established in 1915 automatically became a wildlife wild life ilfe sanctuary now the beaver are back in numbers on on the very stream sit kit carson trapped almost a century ago their dams have made three sizeable ponds ponda to in my front yarl yard sometimes I 1 almost with wish kit would come back to save rave my aspens ashens |