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Title: Kit Carson
Description: Information about Kit Carson (1809-1868), a famous trapper, Indian agent, mountain man, and guide of the Far West. Description of his move to Missouri during the War of 1812, then starting in wagon freighting along the Santa Fe Trail from Independence, trapping in New Mexico and Arizona, helped in the building of Bent's Fort in 1831, traveled as a guide into the Rocky Mountains and California after the Mexican War, served for the Union in the Civil War, and was buried in Taos, New Mexico, with illustrations.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Kit Carson Gun
Description: Article describes the various firearms carried by Kit Carson during his career as a fur trader and guide. The author mentions his S. Hawken rifle, his Golcher and Butler of Philadelphia rifle, and his flintlock trade rifle. Carson's shotgun is focused upon and the author describes the history of the gun and its various uses. The author lists its maker as F. Hellinghaus.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Chouteau's Landing
Description: Description of the first Fremont expedition of 1842 mentions Chouteau's Landing and the trading post of Cyprien Chouteau. While here, Fremont hired Kit Carson to be his guide.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Why Is This Man Forgotten?
Description: Article profiling legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. The author examines the role of publicity and fame in the creation of attitudes toward Carson, both during his lifetime and in the modern era.
Date: 2006-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kit Carson, Dick Wootton, and The Dead Mule
Description: Article summarizing an 1826 incident during Kit Carson's first trip on the Santa Fe Trail in which he mistook a mule for a Native American attacker and shot it.
Date: 2007-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kit Carson
Description: 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.
Date: 1997
Object Type: Book

Title: Kit Carson and the Ute Delegation
Description: Biographical article about Kit Carson (1809-1868), a prominent mountain man fighting with and attempting to pacify violent Indian tribes in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains in the mid-19th century.
Date: 1869-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

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