Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep. On tonight's readings, we are going to read from

with Carson and Fremont. The Trail Journals of the two first government exploring expeditions

commanded by Lieutenant John Charles Fremont

and advised by Kit Carson.

They are mountain men and they are travelling through the Old West in the spring of 1845.

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With Carson and Fremont, Chapter 1, Kit Carson to the Rescue.

It was the middle of November 18. Kit Carson to the rescue.

It was the middle of November, 1840,

and across the sandy face of southwestern Kansas was toiling,

outward bound from Missouri,

a Santa Fe caravan,

52 huge, creaking canvas-topped wagons,

drawn each by six or eight span of mules or yoke of oxen.

In this day the so-called foreign government government of Mexico extended north through New Mexico to the Arkansas River in Colorado and southwestern Kansas.

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