Christopher Houston Carson , besser bekannt als Kit Carson, war ein amerikanischer Pionier. Während seiner Karriere im Südwesten der Vereinigten Staaten war er Trapper, Führer, Scout, Rancher, Indianeragent und Soldat im Rang eines Brevet-Brigadegenerals. Wikipedia
„Ich wünschte, ich hätte die Zeit für wenigstens einen weiteren Teller Chili.“
Letzte Worte, 23. Mai 1868
Original engl.: "Wish I had time for just one more bowl of chili."
“Particular care should be taken that every promise made to them”
Letter to General James Henry Carleton (May 17, 1864)
Kontext: Particular care should be taken that every promise made to them [the Navajo and Mescalero Apache] should be observed to the letter. In this way I am confident that in a few years they would equal if not excel our peaceful and industrious Pueblos, and be a source of wealth to the Territory, instead of being as heretofore its dread and impoverishers.
Letter to General James Henry Carleton (May 17, 1864)
Kontext: The government now tried coercion and vigorous campaign reduced a portion of them [the Navajos] to apparent submission. Again a treaty was made... Another and several other expeditions were organized, all ending and being followed with like results, not because the troops did not bravely energetically and intelligently carry out their instructions; but because the policy adopted was erroneous.
The last and perhaps most successful expedition sent against them under this policy, was that of 1860-61 under command of Bvt. Col. (now Brig, Gen.) E. R. S. Canby, U. S. Army. The treaty made on this occasion was signed by twenty-two Chiefs, a greater number than on any other previous occasion. From this fact and other concurrent causes, it was believed that permanent peace and security was at last bestowed on the Territory, and commensurate to the boon was the joy of the people.
One of Carson's yarns, as quoted by an old trapper in Edwin Legrand Sabin, Kit Carson Days (1809-1868) (1914) p. 505
Kontext: Well, I'll tell ye. I war down on the plains, an' the Comanches got after me. Thar war 'bout five hundred of 'em, an' they chased me. We run an' we run, an' my hoss war killed an' I clum a sort o' butte. Thar war a leetle split or cañon in it, an' I run up this. One big red rascal kep' right on my heels; my gun war busted, but I had my knife. The split narrered an' narrered, an got smaller an' smaller, an' suddenly it pinched out; an' thar I war, at the end. So I turned, with my knife, an' when he come on I struck at him. But the walls o' the split war so near together that I hit the rock, an' busted my knife squar' off at the hilt. When he seed that he give a big yell, for my scalp, an' at me he jumped.... then the Injun killed me.
Letter to General James Henry Carleton (May 17, 1864) as quoted by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Leading Facts of New Mexican History Vol. 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=GUUOAAAAIAAJ (1917)
“Peters laid it on a leetle too thick.”
Comment on De Witt Clinton Peters' book, The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson as quoted by Edwin Legrand Sabin, Kit Carson Days (1809-1868) (1914)
As quoted by Edwin Legrand Sabin, Kit Carson Days (1809-1868) https://books.google.com/books?id=TyQTAAAAYAAJ (1914)
Letter to General James Henry Carleton (May 17, 1864)
Letter to General James Henry Carleton (May 17, 1864)
