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Podcast Episode 3 — Kit Carson, Explorer

December 21, 2020, by JimC

The third episode of the Kit Carson series is up and you can access it here or on Spotify or Google podcasts.

In the 1840s, with his days as a Mountain Man over, Carson put his vast knowledge of the geography of the Far West to work for U.S. Army officer John C. Fremont. Guiding Fremont’s first three expeditions would make Kit the most famous frontiersman of his era.

He also got married — to the beautiful Josefa Jamarillo, whom he would scarce see for the first years of their marriage.

 

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  1. Matthew says

    December 21, 2020 at 9:55 am

    Another great podcast.

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    • JimC says

      December 21, 2020 at 10:27 am

      Thank you Matthew. I appreciate your support and engagement with what we do here.

      Reply
      • Matthew says

        December 21, 2020 at 2:09 pm

        No, problem. I’ve learned so much about history from this site.

        Reply
  2. David C Wrolson says

    December 21, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    The Tom Russell “Against The Blood” that you posted about a couple of weeks ago has me hooked hard.

    Reminds me of a similar book “The Englishman’s Boy” that I read a long time ago. Basic theme as I recall was a mashup of a young man who had been involved in the slaughter of a Blackfoot camp in the 1870’s and then 1920’s Hollywood stuff.

    I don’t even remember if I liked it or not, but I think I would appreciate it more in my mid 50’s than I did in my early 30’s. I have to dig it out of the attic.

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    • JimC says

      December 22, 2020 at 6:51 am

      Guy Vanderhaeghe. Always meant to dig into his stuff. The Last Crossing features the Scot/Blackfoot Jerry Potts, who’s always interested me. I don’t really know why I haven’t…

      Reply
  3. Paul McNamee says

    December 22, 2020 at 6:17 am

    Good work!

    Reply
    • JimC says

      December 22, 2020 at 6:49 am

      Thanks Paul.

      Reply
  4. wayne says

    December 22, 2020 at 7:40 am

    I’ve been waiting for Guy Vanderhaeghe to write another book as good as The Englishman’s Boy or The Last Crossing for years. The Englishman’s Boy is one of my all-time favorite novels. He did a superb job of capturing the period when the last of the frontier slammed up against the modernity of the 20th Century. A young man could be in a shooting fight with indigenous people, then live to see the automobile, telephone, and even the airplane. He could also see the history he lived corrupted into melodramatic, cheap entertainment in silent films.

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  5. David C Wrolson says

    December 22, 2020 at 10:36 am

    Wayne-Now I really have to re-read “Boy.”

    A couple of weeks ago, I ordered “Last Stands:Why Men Fight When All is Lost.” It is not here yet, but I ran across it just now on “Books to Read” list. Here is what was said about it. It even sounds like grist for you guys at Running Iron Report.

    >>>”Finally, I can’t endorse Michael Walsh’s just published Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost enough. Outwardly, the book is what it says on the tin — a series of insightful examinations of historical episodes ranging from Thermopylae to Walsh’s father’s courage at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. But what the book really amounts to is an unrepentant defense of masculinity in its highest forms of courage and sacrifice at a time manhood is denigrated by default.”<<<<

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  6. Jean says

    December 23, 2020 at 11:35 am

    Great job with this.

    Reply
    • JimC says

      December 23, 2020 at 1:28 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  7. J.F. Bell says

    December 25, 2020 at 3:25 pm

    I’ll admit I was hoping for the Mexican Revolution podcast moreso than Kit Carson.

    Still…I finally got the chance to sit down and listen to the pieces available so far. I’ll probably daisy-chain the four parts together and listen to it straight through once it’s done. From the sound of it you might even snag a couple of extra listeners out this way.

    Keep after it, boss.

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    • JimC says

      December 25, 2020 at 5:08 pm

      I will definitely do some Mex Rev work — there are a lot of tales to be told in the folds of that history.

      Reply

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