![]() Most days I walk past a statute of Kit Carson on the capital grounds, a block from my office. ![]() For the past decade, I’ve been director of the Nevada Press Association, where part of my job is to advocate for public notices in newspapers. ![]() ![]() For the first 10, I was editor of the local newspaper, the Nevada Appeal. I’ve lived in Carson City for more than 20 years. I’ve recently been reading Hampton Sides’s 2007 biography, “Blood and Thunder,” which is subtitled “The epic story of Kit Carson and the conquest of the American West.” It’s thoroughly researched and well written, providing the kind of detail that brings the sweep of history down to human scale. It was in his hometown newspaper in Missouri, after a 16-year-old Carson abandoned his apprenticeship to a saddlemaker and ventured on his first trip to the plains and mountains where he eventually made his reputation as a frontiersman and trapper. ![]() Much has been written about the colorful and controversial character named Christopher (Kit) Carson - studious biographies, every history book about the West, plenty of newspaper articles and whole series of lurid dime novels.īut the first time his name appeared in print was a public notice. ![]()
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