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If you love watching old Western films, you have most likely pictured yourself living in the days of the Wild West. If you’re like me, you probably have even made statements such as, “I was born in the wrong time; I should have lived in the 1800s when cowboys still roamed the land.” The West has...

Maria Josefa Jaramillo was fifteen when she married well-known frontiersman Kit Carson on February 3, 1843. The thirty-three year old Carson made Maria’s stomach flutter with excitement. He was fearless and decent and in him she saw forever. Maria Josefa was born on March 19, 1828, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her father, Francisco Jaramillo,...