Rayado, New Mexico
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Rayado was the first permanent settlement in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States and an important stop on the Santa Fe Trail. The name Rayado derives from the Spanish term for "streaked", perhaps
Kit Carson Museum, Rayado, New Mexico
Rayado Creek at Abreu Camp, Philmont Scout Ranch, New Mexico
Kit Carson Mesa viewed from Rayado Turnaround, Philmont Scout Ranch
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.
Rayado, New Mexico
…Mountains. Because the plains were still subject to raids by Apache, Comanche and other Indians, he had difficulty attracting settlers, so he convinced Kit Carson to move down from Taos in 1849 to lend an air of safety to the enterprise. Maxwell married his bride Luis Beaubien (daughter of Carlos Beaubien) in…
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