Kamis, 10 Agustus 2017

Encounter: Kit Carson Meets President James K. Polk

When the frontiersman Kit Carson arrived in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1847, he was already a legend and folk hero. Born in a log cabin in Kentucky on Christmas Eve 1809, he had spent his life trapping beaver in the Rockies, hunting buffalo on the Great Plains and fighting Indians in the Pacific …

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