Kit Carson is one of the earliest Western films,[3] being released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in October 1903.
[4]) Part of the footage was reused in The Pioneers, another Western short also released by Biograph in October 1903.
[5][6] Both films were shot on location in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
[7] Kit Carson and another trapper are attacked by Indians in the wilderness; Carson is taken prisoner and his companion killed.
There, a maiden takes pity on him and cuts his bonds, enabling him to escape again and return home to his loving family.