KIT CARSON Ep. 1 | “Mountain Man”
Legends of the Old West
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Christopher Kit Carson was born in the early days of the 1800s into a large family on the frontier. He grew up near Native American tribes who had always lived in the area and saw their ancestral lands taken over by white settlers. The soft-spoken, shy man was considered the action hero of his day with dime novels titled Kit Carson to the rescue. His name would be forever linked to the darkest chapter of the Navajo story, and then a historic battle against the Kiowa and Comanche in Texas.
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