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The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by de Witt C. Peters
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wounded--Mrs. White's Body found--Severe Snow Storm on
the Plains--One Man frozen to Death--Kit Carson returns to
Rayado--The occupation of a Farmer resumed--The Apaches steal
from the Settlers nearly all their Animals--Kit Carson with
thirteen others in the Pursuit--The Surprise--A running
Fight--The Animals recovered--A gallant Sergeant and his
Fate--Kit Carson and Goodel go on a Trading Expedition to meet
California Emigrants at Fort Laramie--Humorous Adventures--The
Dangers that beset the Road to New Mexico--Hair-breadth
Escape--Arrival at Taos.


Being comfortably housed in his own pleasant home at Taos, Kit Carson
made up his mind to treat himself to a more lengthy stay there than he
had for some time enjoyed. While he was quietly enjoying the pleasures
of home, active operations were transpiring about him, for the
neighboring Indians had dug up the tomahawk and buried the calumet,
and were holding in defiance the United States forces, which had been
stationed in New Mexico to protect its inhabitants. Colonel Beall was
at that time commanding officer of the district, and had established
his head-quarters at Taos. The colonel, soon after assuming the
command, being a resolute man, saw that there was but one way to deal
with these Indians, and that was to bring them to a strict account,
and make them amenable for their many crimes. This tribe of Apaches
has given the government of the United States almost as much trouble
as have the Seminoles in Florida, and I hesitate not in saying, that
before they are exterminated, which is the only sure plan of making
a peace with them, they will have surpassed their red brethren of the
swamps of the South in the number and enormity of their crimes. Before
New Mexico came under the jurisdiction of the United States, the
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