Kit Carson Rock - Wetmore, CO
N 38° 11.740 W 105° 06.020
13S E 491214 N 4227529
Located on Custer County Rd #389 whichis just off of Highway 96.
Waymark Code: WM8TMX
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2010
Views: 10
On Kit Carson Rock (L), 30.3 m., the famous scout carved his name and the intials of his wife, J.J. (Josepha Jaramillo). The rock is cemented and protected with iron rods. When first set up, it was stolen; the thief was threatened with lynching and the stone reappeared as mysteriuosly as it had vanished. This section of the road, known as the KIT CARSON TRAIL, was often used by the frontiersman in his expeditions inot the mountains.
There is a newly erected sign near the rock.
Book: Colorado
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 296
Year Originally Published: 1941
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