![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “He loved print, felt something right about sending out information into the world. In the 1830s he went to Texas, during the Republic, and settled in San Antonio. Wounded at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, though not so severely as another young man on the field that day, Sam Houston, Kidd returned to Macon when the fighting was over and learned the printing trade. When it came to an end he was not surprised. No matter how odd, no matter how out of the ordinary. “As when one is granted the life and the task for which one was meant. ![]() “He always recalled those two years with a kind of wonder,” writes Paulette Jiles, of the protagonist in her novel News of the World. He missed the Battle of New Orleans it would have been anticlimactic. It was the running, the fast traveling that he loved. For two years he carried maps and reports for General Jackson, maps that only showed directions but couldn’t feel the ground. He jogged through South Alabama and South Georgia, down to Pensacola and back to Mobile, dodging British patrols and Red Stick Creek warriors. Long before he was a reader of the news, and decades before he owned a press that printed it, Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a natural runner, carried messages for the army at the age of sixteen, his strong legs and lungs having been seasoned in the north Georgia mountains. ![]()
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