Christopher Kit Carson News Today

Police in New Mexico's capital city on Friday were investigating the partial destruction of a public monument to a 19th century frontiersman and U.S. soldier who had a leading role in the death of hundreds of Native Americans during Anglo-American settlement of the American West. The monument to Christopher “Kit” Carson has been encircled by a plywood barrier for its own protection since 2020, when Santa Fe was swept by the movement to remove depictions of historical figures who mistrea...

Weather in northwest Orange County for Saturday, December 24, 2022

Lafayette Head served as Colorado’s first lieutenant governor, but that was really a small item in his career. He was also a soldier, rancher, an agent with the U.S. Indian

Weather in northwest Orange County for Friday, December 24, 2021

Sunday, May 23

Today: Tonight: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 47. Northeast wind around 5 mph. Highs are forecast to gradually drop, with a chance of rain early in the new week. Red Flag Warning in effect from December 23, 08:00 AM PST until December 24, 12:00 PM PST Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1745 Birth of Benjamin Rush, American medical pioneer and signer of the Declaration of Independence. 1809 Birth of Christopher Kit Carson, one of the most famous mountain men and sc...