Kit Carson House

Kit Carson was a trapper and a mountain man of great renown. He served as an army guide, an Indian Agent and was a highly celebrated Army officer during the Indian Wars. The one-story adobe house, built in 1825, ...

National Historic Landmark- Kit Carson House

National Historical Landmark-Kit Carson House

From 1843 until his death, this was the home of Christopher Kit Carson (1809-1868), American frontiersman and legendary hero of the Old West.

A contemporary who knew him well once said that he was -first in every ...

Kit Carson County Carousel

Kit Carson County Carousel has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America, 1987, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Kit Carson

On this spot, which marks the summit of the Kit Carson Pass stood what was known as the Kit Carson Tree on which the famous scout Kit Carson inscribed his name in 1844 when he guided the then Captain John ...

Kit Carson 1843 – 44

Unveiled June 10, 1989

Artist: Buckeye Blake

It was the winter of 1843-44 when Kit Carson along with the John C. Fremont expedition worked his way south from Pyramid Lake looking for an easy route across the Sierra Nevada. Carson, depicted here ...

Kit Carson

1809 - 1868

At 19, he was hired for an expedition to California. They traveled south of the Grand Canyon, crossed the Colorado, then followed the dry bed of the Mojave River and crossed the mountains at Cajon Pass to arrive ...