Not long before he died, in 1868, Kit Carson was shown a dime-novel cover featuring a picture of a dashing young Kit “slaying seven Indians with one hand, while he clasped a fainting maiden with the other.”
As the story goes, the old man stared at it for a while, fiddled with his spectacles a bit, and declared,
“That there may have happened, but I ain’t got no recollection of it.”
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