LOLOLOL! Indeed. Just a ship's mate on Columbus' boat. But you've got to admit, the sound of the name itself, without the nationalistic baggage, is poetic and beautiful. Maybe that's why it stuck.
Tangentially related, after joining the State I had to untrain myself from using "CC" to refer to Clark County...but it's fun to see those street names in a post. I've familiar with all those names, but never having been to Carson City, it's all so abstract!
We're in the valley just south of Carson City, Justus. True, Esmeralda is a quinticential Nevada name. And it seems, sometimes, that Kit Carson's legacy here is far more ubiquitous than it should be, seeing as how he lived most of the time in New Mexico.
LOLOLOL! Indeed. Just a ship's mate on Columbus' boat. But you've got to admit, the sound of the name itself, without the nationalistic baggage, is poetic and beautiful. Maybe that's why it stuck.
Happy birthday to your husband!
Tangentially related, after joining the State I had to untrain myself from using "CC" to refer to Clark County...but it's fun to see those street names in a post. I've familiar with all those names, but never having been to Carson City, it's all so abstract!
We're in the valley just south of Carson City, Justus. True, Esmeralda is a quinticential Nevada name. And it seems, sometimes, that Kit Carson's legacy here is far more ubiquitous than it should be, seeing as how he lived most of the time in New Mexico.
hehehe...then again our great continent and nation are named after a dude that has no business having such an honor! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci#Naming_of_America