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In california, fremont and carson capture [ inaudible ]. carson travels to washington to deliver the good news to president polk, a trip that include as special stop. carson is a newlywed, marrying josefa jaramillo in between expeditions. hes seen her only a few months in between. but just as he is nearing home, duty redirects his path. >> leading first united states over land from santa fe that helped finish the conquest of california. >> were going back to the west coast. >> he ordered me to j...

>> carson had a lot of regret at the end of all this. the experiment was a failure. and carson realized he had a lot of blood on his hands. >> in the twilight of his days, with failing health, kit goes back to washington to help negotiate a major treaty. >> if he could contribute to the preservation of those who on some level he had a hand in destroying, this could free him of the guilt of what he did. >> carson succeeds in securing a large reservation for the utes on their ancestral land.

Carson have become national folk heroes. after two successful expeditions to blaze the oregon trail. >> they were the first people to figure out where they could forge rivers, what was the safest routes so you didnt have to climb mountains and they led all of the mountaineers. >> the path finder and kit carson was his trustee scout. >> john fremont is a darling but the truth path finder is kit carson. today they fueled the western expansion but soon their mission to map the western territories w...

Barefooted in a country covered with prickly pear and rocks. >> just before dawn, the men split up to avoid detection and then for 12 more miles go through 28 miles of unforgiving territory without food or water. >> i need to speak with the commander of this outpost immediately. >> this daring mission becomes known as the san diego. it cements kit carson as one of the toughest men but what is often overlooked is that kit carson is not the first to reach the outpost. hes the last of the three bec...

Us to understand it was a very different time. a very violent time. he was very, very loyal to his friends. he was ferocious to his enemies. >> in the old testament, its an eye for an eye. on the frontier, its coming true. [ screaming ] >> counting coo was between the mountain men and the native americans. you had to recipient in kind and with greater voracity. this was a way of life for kit carson. >> in 1840, after giving birth to their second daughter, singing grass dies from

Saddles. there were a lot of stories about the frontier that would fascinate anybody. >> at 16, young kit heads west and living by his wits turns a boys adventure into a mans livelihood. >> there probably was not a more dangerous profession in america at that time than being a mountain man. there was the danger of grizzly bears, hypothermia, starvation. these men went into trackless wilderness for months at a time, all in pursuit of beaver pellets. >> kit becomes an expert trapper and lives by a...

Consumed. >> hey, he started it, all right. >> there was swapping of women, marriages took place with indian swabs, as they were called. >> its at one of these meetings where he rescues a young arapaho indian from an attack. her name was singing grass and the two were eventually married. >> this was the happiest time of his life. he learned their ways, he learned their language. he had found where he wanted to be. >> christopher "kit" carson is born into a world of western migration. on christma...

The civil war as begun and the western territories are caught up in the struggle. kit carson joins the yankee fight. as colonel of the first new mexico volunteers and helps fend off the texas confederates. with the rebel threat largely contained, commanding officer general james carlton decides to go after them while the union army was preoccupied. >> these navajo savages, they are far past the point of talking to. they need to be whipped and they need to fear us.

Been living most of his life out on the frontier, has got to come back to this society. he had to be very uncomfortable. >> off the trail, kit is a shy and unassuming man, content to keep to himself. in washington, his celebrity is overwhelming. >> there had been all of these blood and thunder books that depicted kit carson as this giant who killed two indians before breakfast and was a caricature. >> when youre made into a legendary figure in your own time, theres no way youll ever be able to r...