We've all heard the tales of the fearless frontiersman, Kit Carson. He was a fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and US Army officer. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime by biographies, news articles and exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels. How Kit Carson could kill a buffalo from the back of a galloping horse at three hundred yards. How Kit Carson wrestled with a grizzly bear. How Kit Carson killed a mountain lion with his hunting knife. Tales of the beavers he trapped, the trails he took, and the men he befriended. But the tale today begins in the latest days of Kit Carson, when he was ill and bed-ridden...