Went to Taos. It's not the dusty, lonely and isolated town it was (way before any of us was born). Today it's an artist community.
Kit Carson's house is right off of State Highway 64. There is a reproduction of his mountain rifle in the collection along with two double barrel shotguns that "were in his possession." Ditto with the Brig. Gen. frock coat. Not his, but the shoulder straps were purportedly worn by him. Ditto with the cavalry sabre. It's not an officer's sabre but one for the common cavalryman. The museum doesn't know where his powder horn or his possibles bag is. His gun is in the Mason's at Sante Fe and his leather coat in Trinidad.
His tomb is two blocks away in Kit Carson Park. There were four dope smoking hippies clustered beneath the trees that were behind it.
Kit Carson's house is right off of State Highway 64. There is a reproduction of his mountain rifle in the collection along with two double barrel shotguns that "were in his possession." Ditto with the Brig. Gen. frock coat. Not his, but the shoulder straps were purportedly worn by him. Ditto with the cavalry sabre. It's not an officer's sabre but one for the common cavalryman. The museum doesn't know where his powder horn or his possibles bag is. His gun is in the Mason's at Sante Fe and his leather coat in Trinidad.
His tomb is two blocks away in Kit Carson Park. There were four dope smoking hippies clustered beneath the trees that were behind it.