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Title
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Kit Carson
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Description
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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.
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Vertical File
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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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Chouteau's Landing
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Why Is This Man Forgotten?
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2006-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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
