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Kit Carson   /kɪt kˈɑrsən/   Listen
Kit Carson

noun
1.
United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868).  Synonyms: Carson, Christopher Carson.





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"Kit Carson" Quotes from Famous Books



... forth through the Pokanoket country, between his Aquidneck home on Rhode Island, and Plymouth and Boston on the Massachusetts coast. In his Indian fighting he never turned his face from a trail. The famous Kit Carson of the ...
— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin
... number before the rest will think it necessary to retreat. Again at another moment they will be so shy and wary, that in order to approach them the utmost skill, experience, and judgment are necessary. Kit Carson, I believe, stands pre-eminent in running buffalo; in approaching, no man living can bear away the palm ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester


Words linked to "Kit Carson" :   frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man


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