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Old, weathered directional sign to the last homesite of legendary western scout Christopher "Kit" Carson, and elsewhere, in Boggsville, a Bent County, Colorado town where Carson died. Carson's humble cabin there was destroyed in a flood in 1921. Boggsville, originally a stagecoach stop on the Santa Fe Trail, was named for its principal resident, Thomas Boggs, an Indian trader and cattle dealer
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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Date
2000 - 2020
Location
bent county
Source
Library of Congress
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