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In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with American Indian tribes on behalf of the U.S. government.
Indian agents of the U.S. government in 1813
Bust of Benjamin Hawkins
Kit Carson
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Christopher Houston Carson, popularly known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and U.S. Army officer.
Indian agent
…Herman Bendell, Last Indian Agent for the Arizona Territory, 1871-1873 Kit Carson, Indian agent to the Ute Indians and the Jicarilla Apaches, 1850s Leander Clark, Indian agent for the Sac and Fox in Iowa beginning in 1866…
Carson on a visit to Washington, D.C.
Early photograph (possibly the first) of Kit Carson wearing a beaver hat
Mountain man Kit Carson and his favorite horse, Apache, from The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains by De Witt C. Peters. The book was Carson's first biography and was printed in 1858.
Jim Bridger