Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Christopher " Kit " Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition.

* 1809 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman ( d. 1868 )

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Christopher Houston " Kit " Carson ( December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868 ) was an American frontiersman and Indian fighter.

He had a total of fifteen Carson children: five by Lucy Bradley, his first wife, and ten by Kit Carson's mother, Rebecca Robinson.

Kit Carson was the eleventh child in the family.

Lindsey Carson's death reduced the Carson family to a desperate poverty, forcing young Kit Carson to drop out of school to work on the family farm, as well as to engage in hunting.

:" More than any other single factor or incident, Mojave Desert incident from Frémont's second expedition report is where the Kit Carson legend was born ..."

Written by Charles Averill, it bore the name Kit Carson: The Prince of the Gold Hunters.

While picking through the belongings that the Jicarilla had left in their camp, one of Major Grier's soldiers came across a book that the White family had carried with them from Missouri — the paperback novel starring Kit Carson.

:“ I say, stranger, are you Kit Carson ?” the man asked.

“ You ain ’ t the kind of Kit Carson I ’ m looking for .”

With the help of scouts led by Kit Carson, he caught and defeated them April 4, at the canyon of Ojo Caliente.

On January 22, 1858, Kit Carson concluded a treaty of peace between the Muatche Utah, the Arapaho, and the Pueblo of Taos.

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for northern New Mexico.

He turned to Kit Carson to help him fulfill his plans of upgrading New Mexico and advancing his own career, as Carson's national reputation had boosted the careers of a series of military commanders who had employed him.

A description of that meeting is included in the Charles Burdett book Life of Kit Carson.

Dr. Tilton's description of Carson's last days are included in J. S. C. Abbott's Life of Kit Carson.

His headstone inscription reads: " Kit Carson / Died May 23, 1868 / Aged 59 Years.

Many general accounts of Kit Carson describe him as an outstanding honorable person.

Albert Richardson, who knew him personally in the 1850s, wrote that Kit Carson was " a gentleman by instinct, upright, pure, and simple-hearted, beloved alike by Indians, Mexicans, and Americans ".

Oscar Lipps also presented a positive image of Carson in 1909: " The name of Kit Carson is to this day held in reverence by all the old members of the Navajo tribe.

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Christopher Marlowe was also called Kit.

Having a predilection for self-deprecating parody, he once appeared in an advertisement for Kit Kat chocolate bars, miming a piece of chamber music on the violin, in an upper-class tea-room, and he also appeared in an ad for Walkers where he gets his crisps stolen.

They are discovered in each other's arms by Lieutenant Biddle ( John Eldredge ), who is also in love with Kit.

He also tests Grievous by sending Kit Fisto and his padawan to fight Grievous.

He also had a small role in Steven Spielberg's 1941 ( 1979 ) in scenes with Toshirō Mifune and Christopher Lee ; during one scene, he names the objects that he has with himself, and sounds like he does in Dr. Strangelove during the " Survival Kit Contents Check " scene.

" Malick also pointed out that " Kit and Holly even think of themselves as living in a fairy tale ", and he felt that was very appropriate as " children's books like Treasure Island were often filled with violence.

It's also a very cheerful recollection of the kind of self-searching, home-movie documentaries that Jim McBride, the director, and L. M. Kit Carson, the writer and actor, satirized so brilliantly in their fiction film, David Holzman's Diary.

The city also has numerous Aladdin Kit Homes ; at one time, it may have had the most such homes in the nation.

As a child he was kidnapped and inducted as a " neophyte " into V. F. D., where he was trained in rhetoric and sent on seemingly pointless missions while all connections to his former life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit ( who were also kidnapped and inducted ), were severed.

* Hung's younger brother, Lee Chi Kit, has worked on almost 40 films, many of which Hung was also involved with.

Series consultant Kit Pedler also used this fear as a basis for the inspiration of classic Doctor Who monsters the Cybermen, with the creatures being inspired by his own fear of artificial limbs becoming so common that it would become impossible to know when someone had stopped being a man and become simply a machine.

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In October 1962, twenty four year old twin brothers Tony and Michael Brookes ( See also Ford Corsair GT ) and a group of friends took a private Anglia 105e fitted with the Ford £ 13 Performance Kit to Montlhery Autodrome near Paris and captured 6 International Class G World Records averaging.

He also had two specials published during his run on the title, the Hellblazer Special and Heartland, which follows Kit Ryan's return to Ireland.

Bandoliers are also popularly used for toy guns such as the Bandolier Kit from Nerf for holding magazines and foam darts for the ease of the user of any Nerf blaster.

The museum also features exhibits about frontiersmen Kit Carson and Lucien Maxwell who founded a colony at Rayado.

Given the cost benefits and personal enjoyment of boat building, do-it-yourself ′ Kit Boats ′ were also introduced using plywood material.

LaMarr portrayed Nautolan Jedi Master Kit Fisto in Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network ; he also played Amit Noloff, a one time character, and a Tactical Droid.

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Along with Havok's character dynamics, Jupiter EX also includes the " Havok Vehicle Kit ", which adds support for common vehicle behavior.

Single fingered larger Kit Kat Chunky bars are also popular.