Kit Carson's Failure

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In 1849 a trader named James White decided to break from his wagon train and push on ahead with just his family and a few men. The outcome was about as bad as anything you could imagine; the men were dead, and the women taken captive. The subsequent rescue mission was led by none other than Kit Carson. But this time could the hero save the girl? Also, I rant about history! Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west: https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me: https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Tom Tobin & The Bloody Espinosas: https://www.wildwestextra.com/tobin/ Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Thunder-Carson-Conquest-American/dp/1400031109 Meat Eater Podcast | Hampton Sides: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-298-cooking-captain-cook Kit Carson’s Rescue Ride | True West Magazine: https://truewestmagazine.com/article/history-and-the-myth/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Traveling west on the Santa Fe Trail was hard enough. Doing so in the midst of an unexpected
0:34.7	cold spell with a wife and infant daughter in tow could be
0:37.7	downright miserable. Thus was the difficulty facing a traitor by the name of James White in October of
0:43.3	1849. The wagon train had made the trip to New Mexico all the way from Independence, Missouri,
0:49.1	without incident. Feeling confident, James, considering himself a veteran of the trail,
1:00.8	decided to strike on ahead with his family and just a few other people, hoping to make the final push to Santa Fe a little bit quicker.
1:04.3	A hasty decision that would cost the man his life.
1:11.4	The Warriors came upon James White and his bunch not far from a place called Point of Rocks, about 20 miles or so east of present-day Maxwell, New Mexico. Hickoryas, they were, Apache, and they were demanding handouts.
1:19.1	James shoot him away initially, feeling confident that he and his small party could fin the beggars off.
1:24.6	And it was a small party. Other than James, his wife, Anne, and infant daughter
1:29.6	Virginia, yet another lady, a black servant whose name is unfortunately lost to history, a German
1:35.3	by the name of Lawburger, a couple of New Mexican hands, and another guy who went by Callaway.
1:40.9	Five men, two women, and a baby. And I guess you can figure what happens next. The warriors
1:48.2	returned with friends, and this time they didn't ask so nicely. When the soldiers finally came to
1:54.5	investigate, they found Mr. White's body and the bodies of the other men eaten at by wolves.
2:00.1	The two women, however, were nowhere to be found.
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