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.
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.
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John C. Frémont
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Major-General John Charles Frémont was a United States Army officer, explorer, and politician. He was a United States senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the
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…expeditions into the Rocky Mountains. He lived among and married into the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes. In the 1840s, Carson was hired as a guide by John C. Frémont, whose expeditions covered much of California, Oregon, and the Great Basin area. Frémont mapped and wrote reports and commentaries on the Oregon Trail…
Joel R. Poinsett, a wealthy South Carolinian, was Frémont's patron.
Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. Senator, Missouri, was Frémont's powerful backer in the Senate.
Jessie Benton Frémont in 1876
John C. Frémontby George Healy (unknown date)