His courage, promptitude, self-reliance, caution, sympathy and care for the wounded, marked him at once as the master mind.

Like the great Napoleon, when he joined the army for his first campaign, he was a hero, in spite of his youth, among men grown grey with experience." The highest style of manhood, the most attractive character is that in which the mildness and the delicacy of the woman is combined with the energy and the fearlessness of the man.

In Kit Carson we witness a wonderful combination of these two qualities.

An acquaintance of the writer, who spent many years of his early life roving through the wilderness of the far West, and who had often met Kit Carson, said he never heard an oath from his lips.

Even the rude and profane trappers around him could appreciate the superior dignity of such a character.
Rev.Dr.Bushnell, speaking of the region in which our trappers were engaged, says, "Middle California, lying between the head waters of the two great rivers, and about four hundred and fifty or five hundred miles long from north to south, is dividend lengthwise parallel to the coast, into three strips or ribbons of about equal width.