Kit Carson

Christopher Houston Carson

  • American

Legend of the American West

Kit Carson was a trapper, soldier, scout and Indian Agent. - AsNotedIn


Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Significant name White-Indian Contact Site Sparks
Significant name Kit Carson House Taos, NM
Significant name Bosque Redondo Fort Sumner
1809/12/24 Born Significant Date Kit Carson's Birthday
1810/00/00 Carson family moves to Boone's Lick Home Boonslick State Park Boonsboro
1826/00/00 Kit Carson joins a wagon train heading west on the Santa Fe Trail Work
1841/00/00 Kit Carson works as a hunter at Bent's Fort in Colorado. Home Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site La Junta
1842/01/28 Kit Carson is baptized by Father Martinez in Taos Life
1842/06/00 Fremont's First Expedition leaves Missouri. They spend the next five months mapping the Oregon Trail from Missouri to South Pass, in the mountains of Wyoming Expedition Scout Fremont's First Expedition
1843/02/06 Josefa Jaramillo marries Kit Carson Groom Marriage of Josefa Jaramillo and Christopher Carson
1846/05/09 Fremont's party and Delaware Indians battle the attacking Indians Expedition Scout Klamath Falls Oregon Fremont's Third Expedition
1846/05/10 Fremont's party attacked and burned a Klamath Indian village, killing 14 men Expedition Scout Klamath Falls Oregon Fremont's Third Expedition
1846/12/06 Californios battle 140 US Army troops American Scout San Pasqual Battlefield SHP Escondido Battle of San Pasqual
1846/12/09 Kit Carson and Edward Beale deliver a message to the headquarters of Commodore Robert F Stockton calling for reinforcements to be rushed to the aid of General Kearny. American Expedition Scout Casa de Bandini San Diego, CA Battle of San Pasqual
1849/00/00 Kit Carson moves to the Rayado River colony Home Maxwell-Abreu and North (Martinez) Houses Cimmaron
1862/00/00 New Mexican Volunteer Union forces, led by US Colonel Kit Carson, re-occupy Fort Stanton Union Commander Fort Stanton Fort Stanton
1868/05/23 Died Significant Date
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