35-xx-xx ep23Massacre at Taos New Mexico

Frontier Fighters. Frontier Fighters. Valiant Guardians of Trails, old and new, which stand today as a great nation's frontiers

of destiny. Shortly after the United States in the interests of peace and progress, a next New Mexico, renegades, outlaws and drink crazed Indians staged a rebellion against the sovereign federal authority. In the summer of 1847, the first American governor Charles Bent, appointed by General Colonel Kearney was a toused home on a short visit. He refused a military escort because

he believed himself immune from any attack because he had treated all fairly. With him or a few servants, his children, a girl aged five, and a boy Alfredo aged ten, and Josafa, the wife of Kit Carson. At sundown of the day of the massacre, a neighbor said to Governor Bent, Governor, there are times even in the life of a soldier when discretion is the better

port of valor. What are you going to do if a mob's around you? I'm not afraid of any mob. I've treated all with fairness and honesty. That's my record and I stand on and I've been ugly rumors for the past week. I'm moving my family out of tows. You've a duty too, sir, to the women of

yours. I'll do my duty. Up ahead of the new civil authority in New Mexico does not run away. It wasn't very wise, you sir, in these troubled times to refuse an arm escort to tows. It's inconceivable to me that anyone in a new Mexico Mexican Indian or renegade could wish harm to me or mine. Well, that'd be

with you all. Here's for myself. I'm leaving and taking my family with me. Oh, oh, my dear. I'm sorry. I wasn't really eavesdropping, but I heard these ranches have the most idiotic fears. Now, who in the world would dare a sale the authority of the United States government?