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The museum also has a bookstore and gift shop. Just around the corner in Kit Carson Memorial State Park is the local cemetery with the graves of Carson and his wife. Both of their tombstones are the originals: Kit Carson’s, installed in 1890, and Josefa’s, later, in 1908.
In 1973, militants in Taos tried to change the name of Kit Carson State Park. Six years later, Kit Carson Cave near Gallup, New Mexico, was the target of vandals, and in 1990, protestors spraypainted Kit and Josefa's tombstones with the word "NAZI". In the 1970s, a Navajo at a trading post said, "No one here will talk about Kit Carson.
Christopher "Kit" Carson was born in Madison County, Kentucky on December 24, 1809, the sixth of ten children. Carson received little to no formal education and remained nearly illiterate his entire life. After two years as apprentice to a saddle and harness maker, in 1826 Carson joined a wagon train on its way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman.He pioneered much of the American west and rode as a scout for the Untied States Cavalry.
They were determined to fight. Kit Carson and his men were in for the fight of their lives. Fortunately, they had a seasoned frontiersman leading them. If anybody could get them out of their predicament, it was Carson. Kit’s Beginnings. Born on December 24, 1809, in Richmond, Kentucky, Kit Carson was raised in Missouri, where his family moved ...
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) is a member-owned Electric Distribution Cooperative serving Taos, Colfax and Rio Arriba Counties since 1944. For the past seventy-five years, KCEC has been providing electricity to its over 29,000 members.
Carson, Christopher "Kit"Born December 24, 1809 Madison County, Kentucky Died May 23, 1868 Colorado Frontiersman and guide Kit Carson was "a symbol of the daring and intelligence by which the frontier was being extended."Thelma S. Guild and Harvey L. Carter in Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes Source for information on Carson, Christopher "Kit": Westward Expansion Reference Library dictionary.
