Kit Carson ventured west as a teenager, looking to escape the drudgery of civilization by becoming a Rocky Mountain fur ...

Federal board wonders if a suggestion for “Mount Crestone” may be confused with nearby Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle as the state naming group weighs a new name for the 14er The Colorado ...

A new proposal to rename Kit Carson Mountain, located in southern Colorado's Sangre de Cristo range, is based on the contested history of the famed Army officer. It references Carson’s violence ...

DENVER — For more than 100 years, federal officials have held onto the name of Kit Carson to denote one of Colorado's fourteeners in Saguache County. Officially, Kit Carson's name has been attached to ...

For more than 100 years, federal officials have held onto the name of Kit Carson to denote one of Colorado's fourteeners in Saguache County. Officially, Kit Carson's name has been attached to the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Another Colorado 14er could soon see its name changed. In September, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky after a years-long movement ...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war against the Navajo. When the West was a mystery to ...

TAOS — The town of Taos will form a committee to consider renaming Kit Carson Park following a town councilor’s proposal to relaunch an effort abandoned a decade ago amid protests from Taos Pueblo.

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect when Kit Carson and his wife, Josefa Jaramillo, purchased their home in Taos. Kit Carson Park, a 19-acre green space shaded by centuries-old ...

My hike up Kit Carson Peak in June 2000 began with great ambition and ended with confusion. Confusion remains now, almost 24 years later, if in a different way. We’re not sure what to call the ...

When it comes to the Old West, they dont get much more legendary than Kit Carson. Although soft-spoken and physically small, ...