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Kit Carson

American frontiersman
Also known as: Christopher Houston Carson
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Kit Carson (born December 24, 1809, Madison County, Kentucky, U.S.ā€”died May 23, 1868, Fort Lyon, Colorado) was an American frontiersman, trapper, soldier, and Indian agent who made an important contribution to the westward expansion of the United States. His career as an Indian fighter earned him both folk hero status through its aggrandizement in the dime novels of his day and condemnation from some later revisionist historians as an agent of the displacement and decimation...

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