Christopher Houston “Kit” Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman and Indian fighter. Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at age 16 and became a trapper in the West. He gained renown for his role as John C. Fremont’s guide in the American West. Carson also played a minor role in California’s Bear Flag Revolt during the 1846–1848 Mexican-American War.
Born in Madison County, Kentucky, near the city of Richmond, in 1809 Carson moved at the age of one year with his parents and siblings to a rural area near Franklin, Missouri. Carson’s father, Lindsey Carson, a farmer of Scots-Irish descent, had fought in the Revolutionary War under General Wade Hampton. 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. He was known from an early age as “Kit”. The Carson family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of Daniel…
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