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Kit Carson bronze statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1906. Carson's home in Taos, New Mexico, is the Kit Carson Home and Museum. His tourist attraction grave is nearby in the former Kit Carson State Park, now managed as a city park. A Kit Carson monument obelisk (1885) stands at the Santa Fe, New Mexico federal building park.
By 6 January, Carson was re-equipped and ready to move against Canyon de Chelly despite heavy snow. Carson had with him 389 troopers from the 1st New Mexico Cavalry. He divided his command, sending Captain Albert H. Pfeiffer into the east end of the canyon with 100 men, while Carson led the remaining 289 to the west end of the canyon. Carson ...
The Klamath Lake massacre refers to the murder of at least fourteen Klamath people on the shores of Klamath Lake in modern-day Oregon, United States, on 12 May 1846 by a group led by John C. Frémont and Kit Carson.
The monument to Christopher “Kit” Carson has been encircled by a plywood barrier for its own protection since 2020, when Santa Fe was swept by the movement to remove depictions of historical ...
Undated photo of Kit Carson from the Library of Congress. With Confederate troops moving into southern New Mexico, Canby sent Agent John Ward into Navajo lands to persuade any who might be friendly to move to a central encampment near the village of Cubero. In return they would be offered government protection.
For Kit Carson and Pontho (or Panto) the foot journey to San Diego was "a matter of routine." But "to the young naval officer it was pure torture, and upon his arrival at old town [San Diego], being unable to stand because of his lacerated feet, he had to be carried into Commodore Stockton's headquarters."
Aug. 30—A year after the destruction of a monument to controversial 19th century frontiersman Kit Carson, the historic sandstone obelisk remains enveloped in a plywood box in front of the ...
The Kit Carson Scouts (also known as Tiger Scouts or Lực Lượng 66) belonged to a special program initially created by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) during the Vietnam War involving the use of former Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) personnel as anti-guerrilla forces, clandestine operation, combat patrol, and intelligence scouts for American infantry units.