Kit Carson
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 Kit Carson facts

• The few paying jobs he had during his lifetime included mountain man (fur trapper), wilderness guide, Indian agent, and American Army officer
• Carson became a frontier legend in his own lifetime via biographies and news articles
• Exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels
• Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at age 16 to become a mountain man and trapper in the West
• In the 1830s, he accompanied Ewing Young on an expedition to Mexican California and joined fur trapping expeditions into the Rocky Mountains
• He lived among and married into the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes
• In the 1840s, he was hired as a guide by John C
• Fremont
• Fremont's expedition covered much of California, Oregon, and the Great Basin area
• Fremont mapped and wrote reports and commentaries on the Oregon Trail to assist and encourage westward-bound American pioneers