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It also appears on a 1994 Tuscon, AR first day cover (Frémont was the first Governor of Arizona). If the subject was Frémont, Carson--who wasn't on that xpedition--looks like he has had a harder time at home on the ranch than The Pathfinder has had starving in the San Juan Mountains. The photographic print--here a Civil War era carte
d'visite with the Anthony imprint-- actually shows Kit
with Edwin Perrin, sent to New Mexico by the Secretary of
War as an Expediter to help arm New Mexican
To the right is CDV of Col. Perrin seen on an eBay auction backmarked J.H. Kent Photographers 58 State St. Rochester, N.Y contrasted with one of Major General Frémont taken about 1860. |
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This
photograph has been often published, and is usually said to
be Kit Carson and Frémont together in Taos in early
1849, after Frémont's disasterous 4th Expedition. It
was 
used
as the cover art of a recent Frémont/Carson
biography, even though the owner of the original--the Denver
Public Library--acknowledges that the man in the photo is
not Frémont.
troops
for conflict in the Southwestern theater in 1862. Carson was
then a Colonel in the New Mexican Volunteers--later
Brigadier General. Here, looking very military in his
Army frock coat, Col. Carson looks the 53 years old soldier
that he would have been in 1862--not the 40 year old
civilian of 1849.
