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WESTWARD HO!
In 1856, when he was forty-six years old and long since a legend, Christopher Houston Carson, better known as Kit, told the story of his life. "I was born on the 24 December 1809 in Madison County, Kentucky," he began. Before he was two, his family moved to Missouri. At fourteen, he was apprenticed to a saddlemaker, but he ran away, joined a caravan heading for Santa Fe, and never looked back. Across the Rockies, up and down the Missouri, from Salt Lake to Sutter's Fort, he trapped beaver, hunted buffalo, traded furs, and mined for copper. He ate roots and elk and, in a pinch, roasted a foal cut from a mare's womb. He was a mountain man. Once a year, he treated himself to ...
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