Kit shut up a troublesome trapper Kit Carson had a gunfight at the rendezvous on the Green River in 1835. A French Canadian named Chouinard got...
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Kit Carson
Kit Carson: History and the Myth
In October 1849, a trader named James White, his wife Ann and their infant daughter were traveling on the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico when they...
Mountain Men, Grizzlies and Christmas
For 70 years, stories about legendary fur trappers have been editorial mainstays, but on the cover, they’re a rare gift to readers. Since 1953, True...
Kit Carson: Larger-Than-Life American Hero
At the age of sixteen, Carson ran away from his job as an apprentice at a saddlery in Missouri and joined a party of traders heading down the Santa...
A Pioneer Lost His Land
Charles Autobees’ homestead didn’t fit the rules. Charles Autobees was a mountain man and trapper, who plied that trade starting at age 16. He...
Kit Carson and the Conquest of California
The true story of how the trailblazer became the spearpoint of empire All Images Courtesy True West Archives Unless Otherwise Noted Kit Carson...
The Iron Horse and Kit Carson
While innumerable stories about trains, train robberies and the famed trailblazer appeared in True West during its 70-year history, they were rarely...
Kit Lit & Fit
I am proud and excited to report we are publishing a very cool original article based on a chapter in Paul Andrew Hutton’s next book (page 24). As...
The Long Walk
The forced relocation of the Navajo. In 1861, the United States was in a virtual war with the Indians of New Mexico. Plans called for them to be...
Not What He Expected
A stunning description of frontiersman Kit Carson. Kit Carson was one of the most famous men in America in the 1840s, renowned for his exploits on...
A Different View of Kit Carson
The Navajo experience was tragic… Kit Carson is remembered as one of the premiere frontiersmen of the West. But Navajo and some Apache think of him...
Life on the Santa Fe Trail
It wasn’t only the Indians who made life precarious for the travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. The country was literally crawling with rattlesnakes,...