The grandeur and majesty of the American West have always overwhelmed. It is landscape that never fails to humble and inspire the visitor. And perhaps that explains the near-mythic stories of the ...

mhm. Okay. Nearly 9000 ft high in the Sierra is a spot featuring towering peaks, picturesque lakes, abundant wild flowers and even twisted trees. Kit Carson passed stands at 8600 ft elevation along ...

TAOS, N.M. — Sitting in the spare, chilly front room of the house that Kit Carson bought for his 14-year-old bride, writer Hampton Sides pondered the complexity of one of the West’s most famous ...

MR. VESTAL’S book will be the final step in securing for Kit Carson permanent claim to the renown he has always had as the ‘Hero of the Prairies,’ the most romantic and heroic figure of the Old West.

DENVER (CBS4) - History Colorado will bring another rarely seen item out for display Friday morning: Kit Carson's coat and rifle. Carson was a Colorado mountain man, fur trapper, wilderness guide, ...

This edition of Caprock Chronicles is written by Chuck Lanehart. It is the first of three articles, written by him, on the history of Adobe Walls. The series is edited by Jack Becker a librarian at ...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war against the Navajo. When the West was a mystery to ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The sandstone obelisk honoring controversial 19th century frontiersman and soldier Kit Carson was partially ...

A recent federal report outlines a plan for “removal and discard” of what remains of a monument in Santa Fe to controversial frontiersman Christopher “Kit” Carson that was toppled in the summer of ...