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Christopher 'Kit' Carson - Continued, Page 2
In 1834 Kit attended his first rendezvous on the Green River. At the 1835 rendezvous Kit won a fight he had with another trapper, the ferocious Shunar. That fight was over an Arapahoe Indian woman named Waa-nibe (Singing Grass), whom Kit later married.
When silk replaced beaver and the price for beaver fell, Kit found himself hunting for Fort Davy Crocket and then Bent's Fort. It was at this time that Waa-nibe died. Shortly after, their second child was accidentally killed. Kit took the other child, Adaline, back East to attend school and live with relatives. During this trip Kit met Lt. John C. Freemont who was organizing a survey party to map the West. Because Kit new the country he was hired on as a guide and would work with Freemont off and on throughout the rest of his life.
Once back in Taos, Kit married Josefa Jaramillo. Although he was thirty-three years old and she was only fourteen, they had a happy marriage which lasted twenty-five years and bore seven children.
Kit joined Fremont for two more expeditions to California. By 1849 Kit was back in Taos, tired of running military dispatches from California to Washington, DC. He tried his hand at ranching and farming in Rayado. In 1853 Kit went on his last trapping trip to Colorado. In 1853 he was involved in a large and profitable sheep drive to California.
Kit was appointed Indian Agent in Taos in 1854. By this time Kit spoke eight or ten languages including numerous Indian dialects. Because of this, he was able to assist in numerous Indian treaties.
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