Quote#Nature
There is no portion of the American Continent so well adapted by…
Quote byKit Carson · 1809–1868
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to General James Henry Carleton (May 17, 1864) as quoted by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Leading Facts of New Mexican History Vol. 3 (1917).
English (original)
there is no portion of the American Continent so well adapted by nature for the peculiar style of warfare adopted by the Indians, it is not at all surprising that the many powerful campaigns made against them by the Spanish Government were entirely barren of results as to their subjugation.
— Kit Carson
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