Could the 14,000-foot Kit Carson Mountain in southern Colorado get a new name?

A new proposal to rename Kit Carson Mountain, located in southern Colorado's Sangre de Cristo range, is based on the contested history of the famed Army officer. It references Carson’s violence against Navajo and Apache tribes in the 1800s.

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