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 boy's adventure into a man's 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 code rooted in tribal warrior culture. >> kit carson lived true to the code of ethics that is hard for us to understand it was a very