1835+Constitution

= Kit Carson = Kit Carson, the third most famous explorer, also had a NC connection. Although tradition says that Carson was born in Kentucky and raised in Missouri, the Carson family has always claimed that he was a NC native. The Carsons settled near the present town of Harmony in Iredell County just after the War for Independence.Kit ws orphaned as a child and put to work as a saddle maker. He ran away at age fifteen and became a cook and errand boy on the Santa Fe Trail. Barely five feet tall, Kit soon became one of the most famous hunters and trappers in the nation. Writers equated his feats with those of Boone and Crockett. In a career that often attracted bad behavior, Kit was known to be fair and gentle. He was married twice to Indian women, but both died early in the mariages. During the Mexican War, Carson helped the Americans into California. He was married the third time to a Hispanic woman and settled in the town of Taos. When carson drove the navaho off their land and onto a reservation. A sad end to the career of one white man who had been long friends to the Indians. He died after the Civil War.