In 1849 Kit Carson rode as scout for a company of Dragoons in pursuit of Apache raiders along the Santa Fe Trail. They had taken a white woman, Mrs. Ann White and her infant child, captive.
Carson’s men picked up the trail and just before they caught up with the band, they scattered, but before they ran, they murdered the woman. When Carson arrived, she'd only been dead five minutes and the body was
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