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Events on Saturday 23 May 1868 1
1809 – 1868Kit Carson (1809-1868)Died 23 May 1868, aged 58Carson was an American frontiersman, trapper, and soldier famed for guiding western expeditions and later for military campaigns against Native American tribes including the Navajo. He served as a Union brigadier general during the Civil War. He died at Fort Lyon, Colorado, of an aortic aneurysm.