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(1809-1868)

Who Was Kit Carson?

Kit Carson was an American frontiersman who became an experienced hunter and trapper by his 20s.

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Kit Carson, a football star-maker with a dark history of alleged abuse.

After meeting explorer John C. Frémont in 1842, Carson was an active participant in extending the boundaries of the United States to its present size. He became a federal Indian agent in the 1850s and later served the Union Army in the Civil War.

Carson is remembered as an icon of the frontiersman days of the American West.

Early Life

Born on December 24, 1809, Christopher "Kit" Carson became one of the most famous figures in the American West. He grew up on the Missouri frontier on lands bought from the sons of frontiersman Daniel Boone.

From an early age, Carson knew both the beauty and the danger that this area possessed. He and his family often feared attacks on their cabin from Native Americans.

When Carson's father, a farmer, died in 1818, Carson did his best to help out his mother, who had 10 children to raise on her o