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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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Object Type
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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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Last Vestige of Old Hotel Is Bulldozed
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Description
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History of the Nebraska House hotel in Independence, built in 1848 by Lewis Jones, a '49er. It was host to Alexander Doniphan and Kit Carson and Civil War troops, and gradually decaying into condemnation and demolition in 1976.
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kit Carson Gun
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1965
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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, Dick Wootton, and The Dead Mule
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2007-02
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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
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Title
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Kit Carson and the Ute Delegation
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1869-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
