Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . 20 154 THRILLING LIEUTENANT CARSON. Christopher Carson, Kit Carson as lie is fa-miliarly called, is one of the most remarkable cha-racters which the recent war with Mexico renderedconspicuous in the United States. At the age offifteen he became a trader, and from that time untilthe present, he has passed his life in a continued seriesof wild, hazardous, and daring adventures. As
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . 20 154 THRILLING LIEUTENANT CARSON. Christopher Carson, Kit Carson as lie is fa-miliarly called, is one of the most remarkable cha-racters which the recent war with Mexico renderedconspicuous in the United States. At the age offifteen he became a trader, and from that time untilthe present, he has passed his life in a continued seriesof wild, hazardous, and daring adventures. As atrapper, he is unrivalled in skill and success; and inhis numerous conflicts with the Indians, he acquireda name which was the terror of every hostile redman, and the envy of every hunter. His shot rarely Carsons adventures. 155 failed; and through the wilds of a Missourian wilder-ness, none could guide a party of traders as he account of his sagacity and steadiness under allcircumstances, he was chosen to lead in almost allenterprises of unusual danger, and in all attacks onthe Indians. On one occasion he tracked sixty Crowswith only twelve men, cut loose the horses whichthey had taken from the white people, and whi
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