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Podcast Episode 1 — Kit Carson’s People

December 7, 2020, by JimC

The first episode of The Frontier Partisans Podcast is up an on the trail. It’s a 20-minute exploration of the culture that borned Kit Carson:

The Scots-Irish were a frontier people. Hailing from the contested borderlands of England and Scotland, they migrated in the 17th Century to Ulster (Northern Ireland); and many then moved on to the North American backcountry in one of the great folk migrations of the 18th Century. Tough, resilient, restless and often violent, they formed the dominant culture on the Trans-Applachian Frontier. These were Kit Carson’s people.
Note: The date cited for the Klamath attack on Fremont and Carson’s camp is incorrect. The attack came on May 9, 1846.
Music: “Blue Frontier” by Jim Cornelius. Art by Lynn Woodward, Woodward Creative.
Find it here.
Next week: A beefy episode on Carson’s years as a Mountain Man.
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Comments

  1. Paul McNamee says

    December 7, 2020 at 7:09 am

    Good launch!

    Reply
  2. Matthew says

    December 7, 2020 at 8:25 am

    Great podcast.

    Though I have a German last name, I’m pretty sure I have more Scots-Irish ancestry. Either that or other British that adapted to it. It seems to come with a lot of contradictions; a lot of Virtues and Vices.

    When’s the next one going to be?

    Reply
    • JimC says

      December 7, 2020 at 9:23 am

      Thanks Matthew.
      Next one drops next Monday.

      Reply

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