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Carson, Kit
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Kit Carson grew up on the Missouri border, watching his older brothers, one-by-one, disappearing up the Missouri River or over the Santa Fe Trail. After his father died in a field accident, his mother apprenticed him to a saddlemaker in Franklin. That life didn't suit him and in 1826, at the age of 16, Kit ran away and joined a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. (The saddlemaker reported him as a runaway and offered one penny as a reward to anyone who returned Kit to his place of business in Franklin.)
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Rumsfeld's October message was reinforced this week during another ceremony at Fort Carson to unveil a new statue honoring the Indian killer, Kit Carson, after whom the base is named. The images below ... raise the illusion of glory that is wrapped around the U.S. invasion and theft of Indian territories in the 19th century.
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In 1826, when Kit Carson was sixteen years old, he ran away from his home and job as a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri. Kit was small for his age but he knew he wanted to be a Mountain Man. He had become acquainted with Charles Bent and Ceran St. Vrain who were fitting out an enormous wagon train filled with trade goods to take to Santa Fe. After Kit talked Bent into hiring him he was on his way to Santa Fe, and would later become one of the noted Mountain Men in the fur trade.
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Kit Carson County is the 18th most extensive of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 8,011 at U.S. Census 2000.[1] The county was named for Kit Carson. The county seat is Burlington.
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The 2001 Kit Carson Community Festival will run from June 25 to 29. The Kit Carson Community Festival is a five-day event with activities planned for Fort Carson soldiers, dependents and the community.
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While picking through the belongings that the Jicarillas 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. This book must have been shown to him, for he was to comment on it later. This was the first time that the real Kit Carson came in contact with his own myth.
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