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How About Johnny Carson Mountain?
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You know who Kit Carson is? Not Rush Limbaugh's Kit Carson, but the original? Frontiersman, guide, explorer. But some people who live near Kit Carson Mountain in Colorado want to change the peak's name. Why? Because he fought Native Americans, helping the U.S. federal government put down a Navajo uprising and leading the Navajo to a reservation on a forced march that killed about 300 of them. Of course, most of the people signing the petition wouldn't be living in Colorado had that not happened, and most aren't ready to volunteer to hand their homes over to the Navajo. I'd suggest that the government tell them that the peak is actually named after Rush's Kit Carson, but something tells me that they wouldn't like that, either. (KWGN-TV/Denver)
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