12 Mountain Men Deaths Hollywood Refuses to Show You

12 Mountain Men Deaths Hollywood Refuses to Show You Almost everything you picture about how the great frontier legends met their end is wrong. The movies sold you the heroic death, the six-gun blazing, the noble last stand under an open sky. The record tells a quieter, harder, stranger story, one written in fever, in ambush, in accident, in the small betrayals of the human body and the men who stood too close. Resources Bent County Historical Society page on Fort Lyon and Kit Carson’s death - https://www.bentcountyheritage.org/fort-lyon/ U.S. National Park Service page on Kit Carson Chapel and Second Fort Lyon - https://www.nps.gov/places/kit-carson-chap... HistoryNet article on Kit Carson’s final days and death - https://historynet.com/kit-carson-the-lege... EBSCO Research Starter on Kit Carson - https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/hi... Wikipedia page on Kit Carson death details and Fort Lyon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Carson