The Holbrook news., 1912-05-31

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 many rifles. and the Comanches and
 Arapahoes were afraid of them on ac-
 count of their great disparity of num-
 bers, but that if he would go with
 them on the warpath they felt as-
 sured they could overcome their enc
 mics. Carson, however, instead of en-
 couraging the Comanches and Arapa-
 hoes to fight, induced them to nego-
 tiate with the Sioux. He was sent
 he accomplish his mission that the in
 truding tribe consented to leave the
 hunting grounds of the Comanches as soon as the buffalo season was over,
 which they did, and there was no more
 trouble.
 In the adobe dwelling house at Old
 Fort Lyon, where Kit Carson died now part of the United States Naval hospital near Las Animas- Ca
 hill, the only person now living who saw the great frontiersman die, told
 the story of his death. "It was on
 May 22, 1s68," said CahiI, "that Gen. Carson died here. His head rested near this window and he had been looking out through the window at the
 world outside. He semed to want to get out of doors. He had been i'll across the Arkansas river, where he had been living for time. AS he grew steadily worse the fort physician, Dr. Hilton, and others of his friends had persuaded him to permit himself to be brought to the fort for medical treatment and hospital attendance. He had come very reluctantly. All was done for him that could be done, but it was no use. He grew steadily worse. There was smile on his face as, with his hand in my hand, he looked out of the window at the glowing sunshine and died. When he died the last page of the last chapter of the heroic days of the Old Trail was finished. He was the great man of the trail"
 The most memorable military expe- dition up the Old Trail-indeed, the most marvellous military expedition in the memory of the United States-was that led by Col Alexander W. Doni- phan, in 1846. The thousand Mis- sourians. under Col. Doniphan's com mand, formed part of the Army of the West, under Gen Stephen W. Rear ney, which left Fort Leavenworth June 26, 1S46, over the Old Trail for Santa Fe. This body of men," wrote William Cullen Bryant, conquered the states of New Mexico and Chihuahua and traversed Durango and New Leon On this march they travelled more than 5000 miles, consuming 12 months. During all this time not one word of information reached them from the government, nor any order whatsoever; they neither received any supplies of any kind nor one cent of pay. They lived exclusively on the country through which they pass ed and supplied themselves with pow der and ball by capturing them from the enemy. From Chihuahua to Mata- moras, a distance of 300 miles, they marched in 46 days, bringing with them IT pieces of heavy artillery as trophies" It was this expedition, which decided that New Mexico and Arizona should become states of the American union.
 Richens Lacy Wooton, "Uncle Dick' Wootton, as all trail travellers knew him, deserves high place in any ac- count of the historic personages of the trail Col. Richard OWenby has restored near Trinidad the old Woot- ton toll house where the frontiersman, having built road over Raton noun tain, levied tribute upon all who trav- eled thereupon.
 The Trail attracted the young man. Kit Carson went west upon the Trail at the age of IT years; Doniphan and his soldiers wer mere youths, Wootton was but IS years of age when he Init the Trail" and James Bridger, the foremost mountaineer, was only 16 years old when, under the leadership of William H. Ashley, the fur mer- chant, he went out on the Trail. The early age at which the frontiersmen left home for the wilds of the west