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.

By 1851 the Eagle Station ranch located along the Carson River served as a trading post and stopover for travelers on the California Trail's Carson Branch which ran through Eagle Valley.

With this consolidation, Carson City absorbed former town sites such as Empire City, which had grown up in the 1860s as a milling center along the Carson River and current US 50.

* Mexican Dam – 1860's stone dam across the Carson River

After gaining experience as a teamster along the Santa Fe Trail and in Mexico, Carson signed on with a party of forty men, led by Ewing Young which in August, 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River.

At the age of 25, in the summer of 1835, Carson attended an annual mountain man rendezvous, which was held along the Green River in southwestern Wyoming.

For the next six weeks, Lt. Carson guided Kearny and the 100 dragoons west along the Gila River over rugged terrain, arriving at the Colorado River on November 25.

* Carson River, flowing from California to Nevada, ending in the Carson Sink

In the series, she lives in the fictional town of River Heights with her father, attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen.

The county seat is at Stevenson, which is also the county's largest city, although the Carson River Valley CDP is more populous.

* Carson River Valley

* Carson ( related to Carson River Valley CDP )

Frémont first met frontiersman Kit Carson on a Missouri River steamboat in St. Louis during the summer of 1842.

Access to the park is gained via the track from Carson River Station from the Kalumburu Road.

Rangers do not patrol the park and no food, fuel or mechanical services exist within the park or at Carson River Station.

About 30 of these plants are aquatic and swamp varieties that inhabit the permanent pools found along the Drysdale and Carson River.

Jacob J. Marklee founded a toll bridge crossing the Carson River in 1861.

It flows generally northwest through the mountains to Truckee, California, then turns sharply to the east and flows into Nevada, through Reno and Sparks and along the northern end of the Carson Range.

The West Fork rises in the Sierras near Carson Pass and flows northeast into Nevada, joining the East Fork.

The Carson River then flows north, passing through Carson City, then generally northeast past across Lyon County, past Dayton.

Downstream from the dam the river flows east past Fallon, then northeast into the Carson Sink.

The flows from the Carson River is augmented by diversions from the Truckee River.

It flows north past Coleville and Topaz and enters southern Douglas County, Nevada southwest of Carson City.

His frequent appearances on NBC's The Tonight Show spanned three emcees ( Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson ), from the 1950s to the 1970s.

A wooden flume was also built from the Sierra Nevadas into Carson City.

Phase 1 of the Carson City Freeway Project from US 395, just north of the city, to US 50 was completed in February 2006 and Phase 2A, extending from Rt.

Carson was a courier and scout during the Mexican-American war from 1846 to 1848, celebrated for his rescue mission after the Battle of San Pasqual and his coast-to-coast journey from California to deliver news of the war to the U. S. government in Washington, D. C ..

The Carson family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of Daniel Boone, who had purchased the land from the Spanish prior to the Louisiana Purchase.

Many of the clientele at the saddleshop were trappers and traders, from whom Carson heard stirring tales of the Far West.

:" 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 ..."

:" The tragedy of Dokdokwas is deepened by the fact that most scholars now agree that Frémont and Carson, in their blind vindictiveness, probably chose the wrong tribe to lash out against: In all likelihood the band of native Americans that had killed three men were from the neighboring Modoc ...

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.

Near the end of his life, Carson met a man from Arkansas.

" However, it was largely Canby's proposed plan, written from a position of relative neutrality and created in hopes of defusing the situation, that Carleton and Carson ultimately carried out.

If history has to single out one person from among the Mountain Men to receive the admiration of later generations, Carson is the best choice.

" This view of Carson's actions may be taken from General James Carleton ’ s orders to Carson on October 12, 1862, concerning the Mescalero Apaches: " All Indian men of that tribe are to be killed whenever and wherever you can find them: the women and children will not be harmed, but you will take them prisoners and feed them at Ft. Stanton until you receive other instructions ".

Sides said that Carson believed the Native Americans needed reservations as a way of physically separating and shielding them from white hostility and white culture.

At least 25 titles were recorded, from Kit Carson, Prince of the Gold Hunters ( 1849 ) through Kit Carson, King of Scouts ( 1923 ).

Four silent films were made featuring Kit Carson as the " star " from 1903 to 1928.

A fictional western television series, The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams and Don Diamond, ran in syndication from 1951-1955.

* Boy's Life includes a continuing strip story " Old Timer Tales of Kit Carson " from March 1951 to May 1953.

The museum houses artifacts relating to Bent County, Colorado covering the period from the days of Kit Carson, through World War II.

The Kit Carson Chapel, located in Fort Lyon, Colorado, was constructed from the stones of the surgeons ' quarters where he died.