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Title
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Kit Carson
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Description
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Portrait and chapter in the book about Kit Carson (1809-1868), an explorer and fur trapper of the Far West, perhaps the most famous of the mountain men. He was born as Christopher Houston Carson near Boonesborough, Kentucky, and was raised and died "in the Boone's Lick Country of Missouri." Chapter includes a description of his career, starting with the Santa Fe Trail wagon trade in 1826 in Independence, mining in New Mexico and trapping in California until the 1830s, encountering Jim Bridger and many hostile Indians, joining John C. Fremont's expeditions and helping to establish Bent's Fort in the 1840s. He served as Indian agent and guide in the Rocky Mountains in the 1850s, and became the namesake of Carson City, Nevada, after traversing the region several times.
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Date
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1965/1972
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Kit Carson
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Description
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Biographical chapter about Christopher Houston Carson, or Kit Carson (1809-1868), a famous mountain man of the West. He was a native of Kentucky raised in Howard County, Missouri and became a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri before moving to Independence, Missouri for a wagon train to New Mexico in 1826. There he became a fur trapper, trader, and guide associated with the most prominent explorers of the West and Southwest. He lived often in Taos, New Mexico and later became an Indian agent.
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Date
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1997
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Object Type
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Book
