Kit Carson

Author : Hampton Sides
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307387677

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Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.

Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469658841

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Writing Kit Carson by Susan Lee Johnson Pdf

In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo. Johnson's multilayered biography reveals the nature of relationships between women historians and male historical subjects and between history buffs and professional historians. It explores the practice of history in the context of everyday life, the seductions of gender in the context of racialized power, and the strange contours of twentieth-century relationships predicated on nineteenth-century pasts. On the surface, it tells a story of lives tangled across generation and geography. Underneath run probing questions about how we know about the past and how that knowledge is shaped by the conditions of our knowing.

Author : Thelma S. Guild,Harvey L. Carter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803270275

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Kit Carson by Thelma S. Guild,Harvey L. Carter Pdf

Describes the life of Kit Carson, discusses his activities as a guide in the West, and examines his role in the wars against the Indians

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496208248

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Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier by Ralph Moody Pdf

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.

Author : Edward S. Ellis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734054532

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The Life of Kit Carson by Edward S. Ellis Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Life of Kit Carson by Edward S. Ellis

Author : Thomas W. Dunlay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803266421

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Kit Carson and the Indians by Thomas W. Dunlay Pdf

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.

Author : Kit Carson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803250312

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Kit Carson's Autobiography by Kit Carson Pdf

The legendary nineteenth-century figure relates his experiences as a scout, soldier, trapper, Indian fighter, explorer, and government agent.

Author : Marc Simmons
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 082633296X

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Kit Carson & His Three Wives by Marc Simmons Pdf

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.

Author : De Witt Clinton Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UCAL:B3624878

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Kit Carson's Life and Adventures by De Witt Clinton Peters Pdf

Author : R. C. Gordon-McCutchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038565498

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Kit Carson by R. C. Gordon-McCutchan Pdf

Over the past twenty-five years, Carson's legacy has been the topic of intense debate among western historians, many who have suggested that Carson was racist, that he sought out and killed Navajos, destroying their sheep and food supply - that he played a major role in the forced removal of the Navajos from their traditional homelands in the Southwest. Though this theory has gained credence with the public, other scholars dispute those accounts and portray Carson, who lived alongside Indians most of his life, as a kind man who reluctantly fought several tribes only after joining the army. Carson's true actions and motivations are the subject of Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer? This volume brings together a distinguished group of western historians who explore the latest research on Carson in a attempt to separate fact from fiction by shedding further light on Carson's life.

Author : Charles Burdett
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547011514

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Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide by Charles Burdett Pdf

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 : George Douglas Brewerton,Kit Carson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803261136

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Overland with Kit Carson by George Douglas Brewerton,Kit Carson Pdf

Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with Dispatches. Going with him was Lieutenant George Douglas Brewerton, who describes their journey over the Old Spanish Trail. It was a torturous route across deserts and mountains requiring the kind of expert survival skills that made Kit Carson famous. The scout, who was carrying the news that would begin the rush for gold, went as far as Taos, where he was reunited with his wife. From there Brewerton joined a wagon train that labored over the Santa Fe Trail to Independence, Missouri. Overland with Kit Carson is a colorful and authentic account of encounters with Indians and white adventurers and of the hazards and hardships that accompanied anyone who undertook such a long journey in a sparsely populated country.

Author : David Remley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806183275

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Kit Carson by David Remley Pdf

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 : Patricia Calvert
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761422234

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Kit Carson by Patricia Calvert Pdf

An examination of the life and frontier explorations of legendary trapper and Indian agent Christopher 'Kit' Carson.

Author : William R. Sanford,Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464610011

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Kit Carson by William R. Sanford,Carl R. Green Pdf

As winter strangled the wilderness, John C. Fremont needed to get his expedition party to California. Facing sub-zero temperatures, meager food supplies, and American Indian warriors on their trail, the explorer counted on one man to lead the way: Kit Carson. The mountain man and scout knew the uncharted West better than anyone. Carson led the party through the deep snow over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to their destination. Fremont reported Carson's courageous deeds and exceptional skills, and the mountain man became a national hero. Authors William R. Sanford and Carl R. Green explore the life of this American frontier legend.