KIT CARSON Ep. 3 | “The Mexican American War”

Legends of the Old West

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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While the largest battles of the Mexican American War happen in Mexico, Kit Carson adds another layer to his growing legend during fighting in California. American units put down an uprising in Taos and Santa Fe that threatens Kit’s family, and Kit transforms himself into a rancher after the war even as another war looms on the horizon. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Noiser+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	Matters had changed greatly in California since Kit Carson had been sent east by John C.
0:21.2	Fremont and Commodore Robert Stockton with the glorious news of an American victory.
0:27.6	Fremont's third expedition to the west, led by Kit Carson, had turned into a military
0:32.5	campaign, and maybe that's what it was intended to be all along and Kit just didn't know
0:37.5	it.
0:38.5	He thought he was leading Fremont's party into Oregon to make maps of the territory,
0:43.5	but then Fremont led them down into California.
0:46.5	They battled Native Americans and took control of Mexican towns and villages.
0:51.6	They united with Robert Stockton's small navy and sailed down to San Diego.
0:56.9	From there, they captured Los Angeles without a shot fired.
1:01.0	The thin Mexican army in the area was in full retreat, and Stockton declared himself
1:06.1	Governor of California, which he now claimed for America.
1:10.5	He and Fremont sent Kit Carson on an overland mission to Washington, D.C. to inform President
1:15.9	James K. Polk of their success.
1:18.7	But by the time Carson made it into the future territory of New Mexico, the Mexican American
1:23.7	war was in full swing, and the American army was marching into Mexico.
1:28.9	Some of the army, anyway.
1:30.9	Carson and his small group of 20 men were intercepted by General Stephen Carney, commander of the
1:36.6	Army of the West, and his 300 dragons, the horse soldiers who would be called cavalry in
1:42.5	the Civil War.
1:44.2	Near the Rio Grande River in Sacoro, New Mexico, Carney informed Kit that the war was going
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