Overland With Kit Carson

Author : George Douglas Brewerton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787209022

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Overland with Kit Carson by George Douglas Brewerton 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 Fé 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. “Of prime importance to many general readers as well as to historians will be Brewerton’s intimate and concrete pictures of Kit Carson.”—Southwest Review.

Author : George Douglas Brewerton,Stallo Vinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494082373

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

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

Author : Thomas W. Dunlay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Thelma S. Guild,Harvey L. Carter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Patricia Calvert
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : David Remley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806183251

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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 : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Kit Carson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Doug Hocking
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493041800

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Terror on the Santa Fe Trail by Doug Hocking Pdf

*Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction* In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba. They repeatedly clashed with the cavalry and raided wagon trains, and there was bad blood between the band and the Army after the Battle of San Pasqual, when they were on opposite sides during the Mexican American War. In 1854, as traffic was on the increase along the historic trade route, the Jicarilla soundly defeated the 1st United States Dragoons in the Battle of Cieneguilla. Cieneguilla was the worst defeat of the US Army in the West up to that time, and it was just one of the first major battles between the US Army and Apache forces during the Ute Wars. According to one version of events, the 60 dragoons, under the direction of a Lt. Davidson, had engaged in an unauthorized attack on theJicarilla while they were out on patrol. Others claimed that the Jicarilla either ambushed the Army or taunted them into attack. Kit Carson, who was agent for the Jicarilla, would defend Davidson’s actions—and after this fight, he served as a scout against the Jicarilla. Much like the Sioux defeat of Custer at Little Big Horn, the Jicarilla’s victory over the Army led to retribution and disaster. The Jicarilla were defeated and faded from memory before the Civil War. These are the events that brought them to ruin.

Author : De Witt Clinton Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019995760

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

Author : DeWitt C. Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Modoc War, 1872-1873
ISBN : BSB:BSB11094833

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Kit Carson's Life and Adventures by DeWitt C. Peters Pdf

Author : De Witt Clinton Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UCSD:31822043016120

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Kit Carson's Wild West by De Witt Clinton Peters Pdf

Author : De Witt Clinton Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : IND:30000112230051

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The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson by De Witt Clinton Peters Pdf

Author : Geoff Mayer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786477623

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Encyclopedia of American Film Serials by Geoff Mayer Pdf

From their heyday in the 1910s to their lingering demise in the 1950s, American film serials delivered excitement in weekly installments for millions of moviegoers, despite minuscule budgets, nearly impossible shooting schedules and the disdain of critics. Early heroines like Pearl White, Helen Holmes and Ruth Roland broke gender barriers and ruled the screen. Through both world wars, such serials as Spy Smasher and Batman were vehicles for propaganda. Smash hits like Flash Gordon and The Lone Ranger demonstrated the enduring mass appeal of the genre. Providing insight into early 20th century American culture, this book analyzes four decades of productions from Pathe, Universal, Mascot and Columbia, and all 66 Republic serials.

Author : DeWitt C. Peters
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781582182254

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Pioneer Life and Frontier Adventures of Kit Carson by DeWitt C. Peters Pdf

Pioneer Life and Frontier Adventures is an authentic record of the life and times of Christopher “Kit” Carson and his companions in the American West. Derived from Carson’s own narrative, as well as the observations of the author and others, DeWitt C. Peters presents a sweeping view of the lands and peoples of the territories both east and west of the Rockies. He gives us a Carson stripped of the excesses of the dime novels; a sober, stalwart and truthful man who spoke French and Spanish, as well as several Indian dialects. He was an expert on native customs and habits. His early explorations paved the way for the westward expansion of the United States, and his abilities with a rifle created colorful legends. Peters also unfolds for the reader, the great interior wilderness of the territories belonging to the United States, their native tribes and the truths and superstitions they held dear and acts at home as well as on the warpath. Filled with illustrations, DeWitt C. Peters has written an enlightening biography of one of America’s most colorful figures