Kit Carson Dime Novel Hero

It was a fortuitous chance meeting for Kit Carson and John C. Fremont. Had there been no John C. Fremont there might never have been a Kit Carson and vice versa. In 1840 the fur trade had gone into decline and he needed a job. His Arapaho Indian wife had died in childbirth leaving him with a young daughter to raise. In 1842 he was returning on a steamboat from St. Louis after taking young Adeline to be educated in a convent when he made the acquaintance of an army lieutenant named John C. Fremon