Trapper, guide, military scout, Indian agent, soldier, rancher – Kit Carson had a long and illustrious career Kit Carson’s 3-room Taos adobe home displays artifacts, antique firearms and other pioneer belongings The familiar figure of frontiersman Kit Carson, with his rough-hewn features and fringed buckskins, is an American icon everyone knows. The fascinating facts of Read More
Frontier Landmarks
Fascinating historic landmarks carry abundant stories of northeast New Mexico – by Steve Zimmer – Webster’s Dictionary defines a landmark as “a prominent identifying feature of a landscape.” In the early days of the Southwest, trappers, traders, settlers, and soldiers used landforms to guide them across the vast deserts, mountains, and plains of the region. Whenever travelers Read More