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Kit Carson: Trailblazer of the West (1809-1868)

By Dan Zadra

An easy-to-read biography of Kit Carson, who ran away from home at the age of fifteen to begin a career as a hunter, explorer, and mountain man.

Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man

By David Remley

Knox,. the. fervently. ideological. Calvinist. thinker. and. leader, whose faction in the Scots Parliament had outlawed the saying of the Catholic Mass and abolished the pope's authority in Scotland. Parliament had also approved the ...

Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man

By David Remley

If he was born in Ulster about 1720 and if Lindsey was about nineteen, then William was close to fifty-three years old at the time of his ... In his classic History of Kentucky, Thomas D. Clark described these processions: “Adventurous men.

Kit Carson: Courageous Mountain Man

By Carl R. Green, William R. Sanford

C. hristopher Houston Carson was born in Kentucky on Christmas Eve, 1809. Right from birth he was called Kit. His mother, Rebecca, was Lindsey Carson's second wife. Lindsey's first wife, Lucy, had five children before she died.

Kit Carson: Mountain Man

By Tracey Boraas

Glossary ambush ( AM - bush ) —to hide and then attack someone apprentice ( uh - PREN - tiss ) —someone who learns a trade or craft by working with a skilled person cavvy ( KAV - ee ) —a person who worked on a wagon train to herd the ...

Kit Carson

By John Abbott

This is a large stream with many tributaries, all of which take their rise amidst the eastern ravines of the Rocky mountains, pouring their united flood into the Missouri at Fort William. From the head waters of the river, ...

Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes

By Thelma S. Guild, Harvey L. Carter

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

Kit Carson: Indian Fighter Or Indian Killer?

By R. C. Gordon-McCutchan

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...