The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
Author: De Witt Clinton Peters
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 576
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Burdett
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-28
Total Pages: 201
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christopher Houston Carson, better known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman, hunter, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. He became a legend of the frontier in his own life as the main character of numerous biographies, news articles, and dime novels. This book presents the most important events of his life, interesting facts, and stories.
Author: De Witt Clinton Peters
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: DeWitt C. Peters
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Published: 1874-01-01
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780795009563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dewitt C. Peters
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781421960777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Remley
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0806183276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History has portrayed Christopher "Kit" Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding Carson to be less than a mythical hero, but more than a simpleminded rascal with a rifle. Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between prevailing notions about this quintessential western figure. Whereas the dime novelists exploited Carson's popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was dependable, ethical, and—for his day—relatively open-minded. Sifting through the extensive scholarship about Kit, the author illuminates the key dimensions of Carson's life, including his often neglected Scots-Irish heritage. His people's dire poverty and restlessness, their clannish rural life and sternly Protestant character, committed Carson, like his Scots-Irish ancestors, to loyalty and duty and to following his leader into battle without question. Remley also places Carson in the context of his times by exploring his controversial relations with American Indians. Although despised for the merciless warfare he led on General James H. Carleton's behalf against the Navajos, Carson lived amicably among many Indian people, including the Utes, whom he served as U.S. government agent. Happily married to Waa-Nibe, an Arapaho woman, until her death, he formed a lasting friendship with their daughter, Adaline. Remley sees Carson as a complicated man struggling to master life on America's borders, those highly unstable areas where people of different races, cultures, and languages met, mixed, and fought, sometimes against each other, sometimes together, for the possession of home, hunting rights, and honor.
Author: Gilman & Co Dustin
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781290466288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: De Witt Clinton Peters
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Published: 2017-08-20
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9781375738682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kit Carson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1966-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780803250314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The legendary nineteenth-century figure relates his experiences as a scout, soldier, trapper, Indian fighter, explorer, and government agent.
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-12-08
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1496208242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1826 an undersized sixteen-year-old apprentice ran away from a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri, to join one of the first wagon trains crossing the prairie on the Santa Fe Trail. Kit Carson (1809-68) wanted to be a mountain man, and he spent his next sixteen years learning the paths of the West, the ways of its Native inhabitants, and the habits of the beaver, becoming the most successful and respected fur trapper of his time. From 1842 to 1848 he guided John C. Frémont's mapping expeditions through the Rockies and was instrumental in the U.S. military conquest of California during the Mexican War. In 1853 he was appointed Indian agent at Taos, and later he helped negotiate treaties with the Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, Arapahos, Cheyennes, and Utes that finally brought peace to the southwestern frontier. Ralph Moody's biography of Kit Carson, appropriate for readers young and old, is a testament to the judgment and loyalty of the man who had perhaps more influence than any other on the history and development of the American West.