|born on||24 December 1809 at 08:30 (= 08:30 AM )|
|Place||Madison Co. KY, USA, 37n45, 84w17|
|Timezone||LMT m84w17 (is local mean time)|
|Astrology data||02°26' 01°32 Asc. 20°22'|
American frontiersman, trapper, Indian-fighter, rancher, and army general, the archetype of the American pioneer. He spent a life of wanderlust from the time he was age 15, when he ran away to join a wagon train bound for Santa Fe and Taos, NM. Carson is said to have killed more men than Billy the Kid.
Died on 5/23/1868, Fort Lyon, CO.
Penfield Collection quotes biographer Stanley Vestal, "Kit Carson," for "in the morning." The biography reads "On Christmas Day in the morning, 1809." PC also quotes biographer Noel Gerson, "Kit Carson," for "born late in the evening." LMR cannot locate that biography.
"Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life," edited by Blanche Grant, 1926, states on p.9, "I was born on the 24 Dec. 1809 in Madison County, KY"
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Homicide serial (Killed more than Billy the Kid)
- Vocation : Travel : Adventurer (Frontiersman, trapper, outlaw)
- Notable : Book Collection : American Book