Show kit carsons Car niece says scout illiterate boonville blonville Bo onville mo kit carson cofi con to the legend that he was wasfi illiterate i learned lea M ed to read and write as a boy according to mrs bertha carson arnick alece of the plainsman and indian fighter mrs amick bases her contention on family correspondence concerning carson in her Posse possession silon and on direct word from the scouts children carson was born in kentucky in 1809 and came to old franklin mo with his family when he was ten it was in old franklin that he went to school ho he played with his friends along the banks of the bonne femme salt creek and themis the mis aurl itself As a lad in his early earli teens he watched the first steamboats puff slowly up ul the big muddy and tie up at the wharf of old franklin leaving school he went to work as an apprentice to a saddle saddler maker according to mrs amick carson worked at making F saddles a addles for alime a lime then dropped his tools to lead the way in conquering the west |