Kit Carson ventured west as a teenager, looking to escape the drudgery of civilization by becoming a Rocky Mountain fur ...

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 (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 ...