As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter...........
The legend of Kit Carson is one which his name still stirs familiarity, even if few know who the man really was.
He was an interesting orphan in having made his way in life the hard way. He was a rugged individual. He several times took thousands of sheep to California for sale with not losing any or having any Indian problems.
He was a military hero, Chief of Scouts, and as one man put it upon meeting him, "I thought you would be taller than you are."
Christopher Kit Carson accomplished a number of things from liberating California from the Spanish Empire, but I record this note which never appeared in his recollections, but came from a boy whom Kit Carson saved.
This boy was a French immigrant whose parents had died in the cholera epidemic in Kentucky. This white child was taken in by a slave owner named Drake. He was then brutalized by the blacks constantly, until having enough of it, he retrieved a hornet's nest, threw it into the kitchen of Hulda the black and ran for his life.
That was the first time he found human kindness, for on his walking to St. Louis, a place he had no idea where it even was, he daily found farm families who would feed him and lodge him for absolutely nothing.
He had rags for clothes, was barefoot and bareheaded with only 4 dollars which he had earned from doing jobs in preparing for his escapse.
It was in St. Louis that he met a widow and her son, named Becket, who not having much more than William Drennan took him in until he could find employment.
The boy of 15 could not find a job. He was refused rudely everywhere, until a man in a hotel reading a newspaper took kindness on the tearful boy, and after questioning him, decided upon his employ.
The man was Kit Carson.
"He then asked her how long I had been with her, and being told that it was four days, he begged her to take five dollars, which she finally accepted. I took my little budget of clothes and tearfully bidding Mrs. Becket and Henry good-bye, started back to the hotel with my new guardian, and I was the happiest boy in the world, from that on, so long as I was a boy. On the way back to the hotel Mr. Carson stopped with me at a store and he bought me a new suit of clothes, a hat and a pair of boots, for I was barefooted and almost bareheaded. Thus dressed I could hardly realize that I was the Will Drannan of a few hours before. That was the first pair of boots I had ever owned."
Kit Carson when the event in life presented itself, weighed this boy, and finding him honest, did something which only Jesus would take note of.
The US military has their Kit Carson Scouts. People who love America, worship Kit Carson for his exploits, but in reality, all of that means nothing in Heaven. What has place in Heaven is a man who was honest a nd God fearing, and, one of the greatest accomplishments Kit Carson ever succeeded at was taking an orphan boy, teaching him a trade, and rescueing the world from another lawless man.
Think of it, in what if William Drennan had met some saloon card shark or a highway man? What if he had wandered on the plains and been captured by Indians, and become a rapist and murderer as those terrorists were?
Kit Carson gave a teenager a chance when no one else would in the big city, with all their assets to pay this boy a few crumbs in wages, they would not, but Kit Carson did, and William Drennan became a force for good in this world.
That is what matters in life. No one remembers one of the bankers, merchants or hotel owners, but people remember Kit Carson in his legend, because the people who Kit Carson knew, knew him as a man to be depended upon, so there never was that backwash of libel, because people knew the man he was, so the legend grew.
People will not write of the Christian acts of Kit Carson, but those are things written with note in the Lambs Book of Life.
I will repeat again, seeing some good to be done, and not doing it, is the greatest sin of all.
nuff said
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