Dressed in professional attire, Mountain Middle School students filled the halls of the La Plata County Courthouse on ...

In this lesson, students learn about the life of Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman from the 1800s. They then sift through a series of statements about Kit Carson to untangle fact and myth.

Kit Carson got another tough challenge on the road on Saturday, facing a Hanover squad that would also qualify for regionals.

Drawing from “Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West,” a nonfiction book about the 19th-century transformation of the West, students analyzed the complex consequences of Kit Carson ...