Carson joins John Fremont, son-in-law of the prime mover of American expansion, Thomas Hart Benton, to create guides and maps for American expansion west they soon become entangled in the Mexican-American conflict. He carves out a niche as a trapper and marries his first wife, Singing Grass, but the way of the mountain men goes belly up due to economic pressures and over-hunting. Kit Carson goes and becomes a mountain man in 1826. The New Mexicans, waiting in trepidation for American troops, suffer the raids of an older and more familiar enemy: the Navajo. Polk declares war on Mexico, eager to extend the boundaries of the United States from coast to coast.
Book 1, “The New Men,” covers the beginning of the Mexican-American War through the arrival of the Army of the West in Santa Fe.
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