Christopher "Kit" Carson

Kit Carson came through this country in 1843 as guide to John C. Frémont, whose expedition reached the Weber River and the Great Salt Lake. A trapper by trade, Carson became the model frontiersman of a hundred dime novels — illiterate, plain-spoken, fearless — and Utah put his name on the road. The harder truth came later. In 1863 the Army sent Carson against the Navajo, and he burned their fields and orchards, starved them out of Canyon de Chelly, and drove the survivors on the three-hundred-mile Long Walk to exile. He was both men.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 2.3 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 5.1 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Snowbasin — 6.2 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Lagoon Amusement Park — 15 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886

More markers nearby

• The First Hundred Years... — 1.2 mi
• Bertha Eccles Community Art Center (2) Mark — 2.0 mi
• Origninal Pioneer Settlers of Weber County Who Arrived with Their Families in 1848 — 2.0 mi
• Ogden Municipal Building — 2.0 mi