Editor’s note: The following is the first of two editions about Kit Carson and early Nevada history. There was no difficulty recognizing the figure astride a white horse leading a column of U.S. Army ...

CHRISTOPHER CHARLES “KIT” CARSON Christopher Charles “Kit” Carson passed away peacefully on September 28, 2016 at the Paradise Hospice House after a valiant battle with cancer. Born July 1, 1948 in ...

Christopher (Kit) Carson (1809-1868) was an American frontiersman, trapper, soldier and Indian agent who made important contributions to the westward expansion of the United States. He had become an ...

There was no difficulty recognizing the figure astride a white horse leading a column of U.S. Army scouts on an extraordinary 145-mile expedition that began 170 years ago this month and passed through ...