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Kit Carson

Kit Carson

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 18, 2008

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Documentary, History

Original Title

Kit Carson

Production Companies

Insignia Films

Director

Stephen Ives

Description

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war against the Navajo. When the West was a mystery to most Americans, Carson mastered it, and his expertise made him not only famous, but also sought after. Eventually, by helping to spur a migration that would change the West forever, he unwittingly became an agent in the destruction of the life he loved.