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SANTA FE (AP) — The History Detectives of PBS are slated to visit New Mexico for an episode about Kit Carson’s family members written in an old biography.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Sociologist Tukufu Zuberi (too-KOO’-foo zoo-BER’-ee), host for the episode, will be in Santa Fe this week to interview a Kit Carson descendant and author of last year’s “Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man.”
But the History Detectives won’t yet identify the Carson descendant living in Santa Fe.
Born in Kentucky in 1809, Carson was a teamster on the Santa Fe Trail, then a trapper in the Rocky Mountains. He married two American Indian women before settling in Taos with his third wife, Josefa Jaramillo, whose sister married New Mexico’s first territorial governor, Charles Bent.
