"Doctor Compadre Adios " with these words passed a wiry little man who has become a legend of the Old West.

Much has been written about Kit Carson, some of it truth, a great deal of it fiction. The two have been mixed all too often, resulting in an unfaithful and highly distorted picture of the Great Scout. Incorporating as its introduction a paper on the subject by the late Professor Edgar L. Hewett, M. Morgan Estergreen's Kit Carson is the long-awaited corrective to that picture.

Born in the wilderness of Iredell County in Western North Carolina on...