At first, I thought of Kit Carson as a quasi-fictitious character, some mythic gunslinger or Wild West show performer. I didn't realize he was a real person, and that his life was a thousand times more interesting than the caricature.
Carson taught me that heroism is more often in the eye of the beholder. Anglo Americans used to think he was a hero. American Indians, especially the Navajo, thought he was a genocidal maniac. How can this be the same person?
The Navajos showed me that Americ
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