Trailblazer: The Autobiography of Kit Carson

ISBN-10: 0877542856
ISBN-13: 9780877542858
Series: Trailblazer
Pages: 192
Language: English
Published: 1983
Publisher: Chelsea House
Author: Kit Carson

Description

The account - as modest and undemonstrative as Carson's feats were remarkable - covers his life as a trapper, Indian fighter, guide, and buffalo hunter up to the fall of 1856. Among the high spots dureing these years were his trapping expedition to California with Ewing Young (1829-1831), his celebrated duel with Shunar at the Green River rednezvous of 1837, the three expeditions fwith Frémont (1842, 1843-1844, 1845), his exploits in the Mexican War (1846-1848), and his service as an Indian agent.