American Experience · SEASON 20

Kit Carson

Episode 8 · 2008-02-18

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Episode overview

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.

55 minutes

Season 20 episodes

1. Oswald's Ghost2008-01-14 2. The Lobotomist2008-01-21 3. Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies2008-02-03 4. Grand Central2008-02-04 5. Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land2008-02-10 6. Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?2008-02-17 7. Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement2008-02-24 8. Kit Carson2008-02-18 9. Buffalo Bill2008-02-25 10. Minik: The Lost Eskimo2009-03-31 11. Walt Whitman2008-04-14 12. Roberto Clemente2008-04-21 13. George H.W. Bush (1)2008-05-05 14. George H.W. Bush (2)2008-05-06