Serious issues divide America. Flashpoints appear regularly. The most fundamental battle lines will be drawn over access to water. When you stand on the parched, cracked bottom of Lake Mead and Vegas asks South Dakota to divert the waters of … Read More
Tour Guide on the Rio Grande
In 1818, Boonslick, Missouri resident Lindsay Carson was killed by a falling tree. His widow, Rebecca Robinson, raised 15 children by herself. Their 11th child, a kid named Kit, was sent to work in a saddle shop in Franklin, Missouri, … Read More
Tough Skins
Mountain men told wild stories to young Kit Carson along the Rio Grande River, stories Kit repeated around campfires to wide-eyed pilgrims on the Santa Fe Trail. This bronze depiction of mountain men in a buffalo skin canoe crashes the … Read More