Kit Carson, the Happy Warrior of the Old West

Kit Carson, the Happy Warrior of the Old West

Author: Stanley Vestal

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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A biography of famed Old West frontiersman Christopher (Kit) Carson. At various times Carson worked as a mountain man (fur trapper), wilderness guide, Indian agent, and American Army officer.


Kit Carson and the Indians

Kit Carson and the Indians

Author: Thomas W. Dunlay

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2005-05-01

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9780803266421

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Portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson has become in recent years a historical pariah--a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, and an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. Here we are urged to reconsider Carson yet again. Carson was a man of the nineteenth century, whose racial views and actions were much like those of his contemporaries.


Kit Carson, the Happy Warrior of the Old West

Kit Carson, the Happy Warrior of the Old West

Author: Stanley Vestal

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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A biography of famed Old West frontiersman Christopher (Kit) Carson. At various times Carson worked as a mountain man (fur trapper), wilderness guide, Indian agent, and American Army officer.


Kit Carson & His Three Wives

Kit Carson & His Three Wives

Author: Marc Simmons

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780826332967

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In this family centered biography, independent scholar Simmons describes the lives of the three women who were married to frontiersman Kit Carson. They include Arapaho woman Waa-Nibe, who died three years after their marriage; Cheyenne woman Making Out Road, who divorced Carson after 14 months; and Josefa Jaramillo, the fourteen year old daughter of a prominent Taos family and mother of Carson's seven children.


Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868

Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868

Author: Edwin Legrand Sabin

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1935-01-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780803292383

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Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and prosperity as a wrangler, teamster, and trapper. He lives all over the unplotted West, helping to open trails, harvesting fur, befriending mountain men, and fighting and trading with Indians. Carson’s reputation grows after John C. Frémont engages him as guide in 1842. He proves indispensable to the Pathfinder in three expeditions and plays a part in the Bear Flag Rebellion. The first volume is an encyclopedia of activity in the West during the first part of the nineteenth century, bringing into play such figures as Ewing Young, William Ashley, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Hugh Glass, John Colter, William Sublette, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, William Bent, Stephen Kearny, President James K. Polk, John Sutter, and Nathaniel Wyeth. This revised edition includes vivid chapters on the mountain man, his character, habits, clothing, and equipment. Volume 2 begins with Carson carrying the news of the conquest of California across the country to Washington, D.C., stopping en route to see his wife in Taos, New Mexico. The older Carson consolidates his fame as a courier, scout, soldier, and Indian agent. Americans, avid for newfound gold, turn to him as an authority on trail lore, and the government recognizes his usefulness in dealing with “the Indian problem.” Carson is seen against the larger background of incessant warfare in the Southwest after midcentury. He fights the Kiowas at Adobe Walls, chases the Apaches, and forces the Navajos into the Bosque Redondo. He fights in the Civil War and retires at fifty-eight—but dies two years later in 1868.


Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Author: Oklahoma

Publisher: US History Publishers

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1603540350

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The WPA Guide to Oklahoma

The WPA Guide to Oklahoma

Author: Federal Writers' Project

Publisher: Trinity University Press

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1595342346

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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Oklahoma is filled with descriptions of Native American life in the region, accompanied by many photographs. From Black Mesa to Cavanal Hill, this guide to the Sooner State takes the reader on a journey across the state’s vast and varied landscape. Also, notable in this guide is an essay by prominent historian Edward Everett Dale entitled “The Spirit of Oklahoma.”