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Show The Death of Kit Carson. Speaking of Kit Carson's death, I am reminded that ex-Governor Hunt, of Colorado, called on me recently, and told me the details of "Kit's" last" movements. move-ments. The Governor had been East with the old hero to see the doctors, who told him his days were numbered. Kit Carson could not die in a city; he must have room and air. As they" climbed the foot-hills beyond the Missouri and began to look out over the vast,; roomy plains, and to smell the sweet air of the Rocky Mountains far away, like the foamy billows, the old pioneer lifted himself up on his elbows, as he lay on his pallet in the car, and beckoning Governor Hunt to his side, said: . "Gov'nor,- gov'nor, I'm goin' to git well!" "Good! Good, Kit! Of course you are going to get well. But what makes you so certain of it ?" " 'Cause I I smell the prairies." And that was about the last words of a hero, who, I believe would have starved rather than ask for pay or pension. Joaquin Miller's Letter. |