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Particular care should be taken that every promise made to them [the…
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).
English (original)
Particular care should be taken that every promise made to them [the Navajo and Mescalero Apache] should be observed to the letter. In this way I am confident that in a few years they would equal if not excel our peaceful and industrious Pueblos, and be a source of wealth to the Territory, instead of being as heretofore its dread and impoverishers.
— Kit Carson
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