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The Kit Carson Chapel, located in Fort Lyon, Colorado, was constructed from the stones of the surgeons ' quarters where he died.
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Kit and Carson
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.
Kit and Chapel
It Hates You was released on July 21, 2009 and produced by Mitchell Marlow and Allen Jacob at Warrior Sound in Chapel Hill, NC, with additional production by Kit Walters.
Kit and located
The Kit Carson Museum in Las Animas, Colorado, is located in an adobe building that was built in 1940 to hold German prisoners of war captured in North Africa during World War II.
Fort Garland, located within the city of the same name in Colorado, was the location where Kit Carson briefly re-located his family while he served as commandant of a company of roughly 100 New Mexico Volunteers in 1866-1867.
San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park, located near Escondido, California, is a California State Park which honors the memory of the participants from both the United States and Mexico, including Kit Carson, who contested the Battle of San Pasqual on December 5 – 6, 1846 during the Mexican-American War.
* Kit Carson County, located in eastern Colorado
The Kit Carson Museum is a living museum that operates in the summer in Rayado, located south of Philmont's headquarters.
The monument features a depiction of Kit Carson and marks the end of the Smoky Hill Trail, a popular route to Colorado taken by frontiers in search of gold located near the Smoky Hill River.
Kit Mikayi, a large rock with three rocks on top, and is located off Kisumu Bondo Road towards Bondo.
Lucy ( Britney Spears ), Mimi ( Taryn Manning ) and Kit ( Zoe Saldana ) are three friends who live in a small town located in the state of Georgia.
The Love Ranch ( previously known as the BunnyRanch Two ), a separately licensed brothel, is located about a mile south of the Moonlite BunnyRanch, near two other brothels ( the Kit Kat Guest Ranch and the Sagebrush Ranch ).
Kit and Fort
In 1844, Captain John C. Fremont, accompanied by Kit Carson, was the first member of the US Army to visit the Fort Irwin area.
He enlisted Kit Carson, the one-time friend of the Navajo, to round them up by destroying their crops and livestock, and forcing them on The Long Walk to Fort Sumner.
The American frontiersman Kit Carson was employed as a hunter by the Bent brothers in 1841, and regularly visited the Fort.
The Pacific Crest Trail traverses the Carson Pass summit, which has California Historical Landmark # 315 at CA 88 postmile 6. 09When encamped at Nevada's Carson Valley on January 31, 1844 ; guide Kit Carson suggested the expedition detour west during the winter conditions to Sutter's Fort in California for supplies.
Kit and Lyon
* Lucius Lyon: An Eminently Useful Citizen by Kit Lane ; Publisher: Pavilion ; Published Date: 1991 ; ISBN 1-877703-21-4
Kit and Colorado
The museum houses artifacts relating to Bent County, Colorado covering the period from the days of Kit Carson, through World War II.
* Kit Carson, Colorado ( on US 287 about south and east of Denver )
* Kit Carson Mountain and Kit Carson Peak, its highest point, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of southern Colorado
* Gordon-McCutchan, R. C. ( Editor ) Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer ?, University Press of Colorado, 1996.
* Kit Carson County, Colorado ( northwest )
* Kit Carson County, Colorado ( west )
* Kit Carson County, Colorado ( southwest )
Kit Carson County is the 18th most extensive of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States.
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Kit Carson County, Colorado
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