Jumat, 27 Mei 2016

Letter From Wild West – August 2016

Edward S. Curtis photographed these men, boys and pack animals outside a uniquely sited Jicarilla "tree house" in 1905. A half-century earlier Army scout Kit Carson had had run-ins with the tribe that fostered mutual animosity.Carson’s contempt for the Jicarillas was ingrained by the time he became Indian agent

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