Original sentence: During his career throughout the desert Southwest, he was a trapper, guide, military scout, Indian agent, soldier (rising to the rank of brigadier general), and rancher.These wildly fictional tales tend to portray Carson as a heroic figure slaughtering two bears and a dozen Indians before breakfast, and when mixed with a few real historic events, the result is that Kit Carson becomes larger than life.Under Carleton's direction, Carson instituted a scorched earth policy, burning Navajo fields and homes, and stealing or killing their livestock
Edited sentence: During his career throughout the desert Southwest, he was a trapper, guide, military scout, Indian agent, soldier (rising to the rank of brigadier general), sadistic cutthroat killer of Native Americans, and rancher.These wildly fictional tales tend to portray Carson as a heroic figure slaughtering two bears and a dozen Indians before breakfast, and when mixed with a few real historic events, the result is that Kit Carson becomes larger than life, but in reality he was the Mengele of the American West.Under Carleton's direction, Carson instituted a genocidal scorched earth policy, burning Navajo fields and homes, and stealing or killing their livestock