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 )

Specialist units can be used profitably, including commando squads, long range reconnaissance and " hunter-killer " patrols, defectors who can track or persuade their former colleagues like the Kit Carson units in Vietnam, and paramilitary style groups.

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.

* 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

After the primary, Missouri Governor Kit Bond appointed Ashcroft to the office of State Auditor, which Bond had vacated when he became Governor.

* Six Gun Heroes had two Kit Carson titles ( 1957 & 1958 ), and there was a Kit Carson No. 10 in 1963.

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.

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

After killing many of Shing's men, Mark berates Kit, telling him that Ho's actions had atoned for whatever wrongdoings he had done in the past.

At the age of 14, Kit was apprenticed to a saddlemaker ( Workman's Saddleshop ) in Franklin, Missouri, which was situated at the eastern end of the Santa Fe Trail, which had opened two years earlier.

After bringing out one failed single (" I'm the Face / Zoot Suit "), they dropped Meaden and were signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, who had paired up with the intention of finding new talent and creating a documentary about them.

He found they had fallen into disarray under the management of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp.

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.

In August 2009, Kit Williams was reunited with the golden hare which he had not seen for more than 30 years.

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.

( Scheming, vindictive Charlotte was murdered by Kit in 1973, and then Kit herself was shot by Joe Werner in self-defense in 1974, after she had attempted to poison Sara McEntire.

Kit Bond, nearing retirement in 2010, recalled with some embarrassment in a conversation on civility in political discourse that Moynihan had once " slugged on the Senate floor after Bond denounced an earmark Moynihan had slipped into a highway appropriations bill.

Kit Carson and the U. S. Army in 1864 trapped the entire Navajo tribe in New Mexico, where they had been raiding settlers, and put them on a reservation.

Various algorithms for generating Canonical SMILES have been developed, including those by Daylight Chemical Information Systems, OpenEye Scientific Software, MEDIT, Chemical Computing Group, MolSoft LLC, and the Chemistry Development Kit.

This approach has been defended by Kit Fine and Rosanna Keefe.

Kit cars have been around from the earliest days of the automobile.

Both the specifications and the Starter Kit have been released under the Apache 2. 0 license and have been offered to the Apache Software Foundation's Incubator.

Soon after the release of Lucifer Rising, a PBS documentary of Anger and his films was made, titled Kenneth Anger's Magick, which was directed by Kit Fitzgerald, who later recalled interviewing him in his New York flat on a very hot July evening, during which Anger revealed that he was so broke that he had been forced to sell his air conditioner.

The eventual outcome saw Lim Kit Siang, who had been elected in his constituency of Ipoh Timur with a majority of 10, 000 votes, formally elected as the leader of the opposition in Parliament, a post he had lost to the president of PAS in 1999.

The strategy initially reversed the decline of the Kit Kat and has been adopted worldwide by Nestlé, Hershey, Mars and others with similar success.

Since 1958, the slogan for the Kit Kat in the UK and elsewhere has been " Have a break ... have a Kit Kat ".

It has also been announced that the fair trade Kit Kat promotion will be extended to the finger edition as of January 2010.

Large single-fingered " Chunky Kit Kats " were launched in the United Kingdom in 1998, and have been sold in a variety of flavours.

Many features of the site have been noted by the press, including its culture tests, humorous excerpts from phrase books, its collection of numbers in over 5000 languages and the " Language Construction Kit ".

Jacques Snicket, whom the children saw murdered in the Village of Fowl Devotees, was a researcher similar to Klaus ; Kit Snicket, who helped build the Queequeg ; and before Widdershins mentions the third Snicket Sibling, Fiona interrupts him, wanting to know about the VFD Headquarters the children had been too.

The programme was created by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler, who had previously collaborated on scripts for Doctor Who, a programme on which Davis had been the story editor and Pedler the unofficial scientific adviser during the 1960s.

Kit then checks with tunnel administrators, and finds that most of the old exits have been sealed off or are considered unsafe.

He also gave away his " Hit Kit " every day to a listener who had been chosen from postcards that were sent in.

She hurries to the bathroom where she meets Kit Holbum, who has also been seeing things.

Karpal is a controversial figure, and has been labelled along with fellow DAP politician Lim Kit Siang as a racial provocateur.

Shortly after the group checks into a motel, Kit tells the girls that she heard a rumour about Ben, commenting that he had recently been released from jail, after killing someone.

General Kearny had orders to assume command of U. S. forces in California, but before entering Alta California from Santa Fe, Kearny sent back 200 of his 300 mounted dragoons after hearing from messenger Kit Carson that all of California had already been captured by Commodore Robert F. Stockton and his 400 combined sailors and Marines, and John C. Frémont and his approximate 400 man California Battalion.

Having been initially formed in the early 1980s performing under the names Perfect Strangers and then Dream Kitchen, brothers Gary Clark ( vocalist / guitarist / keyboardist ) and Kit Clark ( guitarist ) formed a band with friend Ged Grimes in 1984, initially under the name Spencer Tracy.

He has been married to Kathryn Anne (" Kit ") Riley since 2001.

Upon reaching California, Kit Carson intercepted him and his men, who informed him the territory had been taken by American settlers in the Bear Flag Revolt.