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/kɪt kˈɑrsən/ Listen

Kit Carson

noun

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

... he shouted, "or I'll put daylight through you." (This was a favorite expression of Randy's purloined from the life of Kit Carson.) Then, as retreating footsteps were heard, he lowered the weapon a little and ...

— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon

... greeting. Clay's mind went back to the days when he was a boy, when his father was absent fighting for a lost cause; when his mother taught in a little schoolhouse under the shadow of Pike's Peak, and when Kit Carson was his hero. He thought of the poverty of those days poverty so mean and hopeless that it was almost something to feel shame for; of the days that followed when, an orphan and without a home, he had sailed away from New Orleans to the Cape. How ...

— Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis

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