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Kit Carson Kit carson, the third famous explorer, also had a North Carolina connection.Although tradition says that Carosn was born in Kentucky and raised in Mussouri, the Carson family has always claimed that he was a Noth Carolina native. The Carsons settled near the present town of Harmony in Iredell County just after the War of Independence. Folks in Harmony still say that the Carsons came back in 1809 and went to a dance to see their neighbors on Christmas Eve. Kit was orphaned as a child and put to work as a saddle maker. He ran away at age 15 and became a cook and errand boy on the Santa Fe Trail, the route taken by Americans to get to the Rocky mts. Barely 5 feet tall, Kit soon became one of the most famous hunters and trappers in the nation. Carson's last action for the nation was for atleast admirable. He drove many of the Navaho off thier land onto the reservation. Many suffered because of the action, a sad end to the carrer of one white man who had long been a friend of the Indians. He died after the Civil War.

The constitutional convention of 1835 The states voters went to the polls in 1835 to decide whether to hold contitution convention that would address the problems. Almost to a voter, west said yes, almost to a voter, the east said no. In factm the votes changed dramatically from one side of the fall line to the other. However, since the west by that time had more people, the "ayes" had it. The best leaders from bothe east and west came to Raliegh in 1835 to amend the 1776 constitution. They honored the aging Nathienal Macon by making him chairman. However