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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8205168, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1970 Christopher Kit Carson </b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>.999 Silver Medallic Art Co.</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>[ATTACH=full]1438302[/ATTACH] </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>There were 7500 minted in silver and the same amount in bronze by The Medallic Art Co.</p><p>I read his biography and he was one of the toughest men in the Wild West. A brutal Indian killer for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438303[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4">Born: December 24, 1809, Richmond, Kentucky</font></p><p><font size="4">Died: May 23, 1868, Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>1968 Kit Carson New Mexico </b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Bronze Medal</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438309[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is no date on this medal, I am assuming it is probably minted 100 years after Kit Carson died. I do not know who made the medal at this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438307[/ATTACH]&nbsp; &nbsp; <font size="4"><span style="color: #660000"><b>Statue at the Kit Carson Memorial Fort Carson, CO.</b></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>The Kit Carson House is a historic house museum at 113 Kit Carson Road in central Taos, New Mexico.</p><p>It stands a short way east of Taos&#039;s central plaza, on the north side of Kit Carson Road. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438306[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a modest single-story adobe structure, built in 1825, that is an east-facing U shape with a central courtyard. The oldest portion of the house consists of the front three rooms, and the next room to the north. The interior of these rooms has been furnished in the Spanish Colonial and Territorial styles of the Carson period, while other rooms house museum offices and displays.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kit Carson grew up in the frontier west, and became renowned as a fur trapper and guide on numerous United States Army expeditions against Native Americans. In 1843 he married Josefa Jarmillo, who was from a leading Taos family, and purchased this house. It remained the couple&#039;s principal home until 1868. </p><p><br /></p><p>My 1949 Bowman Wild West card</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438320[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438319[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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