Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . ^,and was born on the 24th of December, 1809. Colonel Fremont, in hisexhaustive and interesting report of his Exploring Expedition to Oregonand North California, in 1843-44, says that Carson was a native of Boons-. OLD HOME OF THK FAMOUS GUIDK, KIT CARSON, AT TAOS, NIAV lick count}, Missouri ; and from his long association with the hunter, heprobabl}^ makes the statement on Carsons own authority. The error, ifit is an error, may have arisen from the fact that Carsons father movedfrom Kentucky to Missouri, when Christopher w
Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . ^,and was born on the 24th of December, 1809. Colonel Fremont, in hisexhaustive and interesting report of his Exploring Expedition to Oregonand North California, in 1843-44, says that Carson was a native of Boons-. OLD HOME OF THK FAMOUS GUIDK, KIT CARSON, AT TAOS, NIAV lick count}, Missouri ; and from his long association with the hunter, heprobabl}^ makes the statement on Carsons own authority. The error, ifit is an error, may have arisen from the fact that Carsons father movedfrom Kentucky to Missouri, when Christopher was only one year settled in what is now Howard county, in the central part ofMissouri. When Mr. Carson removed his family from Kentucky, and settledin the new territory, it was a wild region, naturally fertile, thus favoringhis views as a cultivator; abounding in wild game, and affording a splen- 64 KIT CARSON. did field of enterprise for the hunter, but infested on all sides with Indians,often hostile, and always treacherous. As Mr. Carson united the pursuitsof farmer and hunter, and lived in a sort of blockhouse or fort, as a pre-caution against the attacks of the neighboring Indians, his son becameaccustomed to the presence of danger, and the necessity of e
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