Kit Carson's Wild West
Author : De Witt Clinton Peters
Publisher :
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : De Witt Clinton Peters
Publisher :
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : Hampton Sides
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0307387674
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 : Kit Carson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803250314
The legendary nineteenth-century figure relates his experiences as a scout, soldier, trapper, Indian fighter, explorer, and government agent.
Author : Stanley Vestal
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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.
Author : DeWitt C. Peters
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781498124102
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1874 Edition.
Author : Edward S. Ellis
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
As one can surmise from the title, the following book is a biography of a man named Kit Carson. He was an American frontiersman, a fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime by biographies and news articles, and exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels. His understated nature belied confirmed reports of his fearlessness, combat skills, tenacity, and profound effect on the westward expansion of the United States.
Author : Kyle A. Grafstrom
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781603020268
Freemasonry in the Wild West is an accessible account of the role played by Freemasonry and its adherents during the westward expansion of the United States. Starting with the foundation of American colonization on the west coast at Astoria, Oregon, this book traces the Masons who were directly involved in developing the West.
Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1493011499
From Calamity Jane’s relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Masterson—and learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today. Meet Agnes Lake Hickok, the intrepid wife of Wild Bill Hickok and learn about the last love letter he sent before being dealt the dead man’s hand. Learn the story behind the charming performer Lotta Crabtree’s heartaches. And discover the tale of the dashing Kit Carson and his beautiful bride. This collection features the lessons learned by and from the antics of the women who shaped the West.
Author : Julia Bricklin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 149304754X
Edward Zane Carroll Judson aka Ned Buntline (1821–1886) was responsible for creating a highly romantic and often misleading image of the American West, albeit one that the masses found irresistible in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Some scholars estimate that he wrote at least four hundred dime novels over his lifetime, and perhaps as many as six hundred. While he is best known for discovering William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill) and making the irrepressible scout a star, Judson—by that time—had already lived five lifetimes himself: he had fought Seminole Indians in Florida; started and bankrupted three newspapers; published dozens of successful novels; agitated for the Know-Nothing party; and fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. Along the way, the fiery redheaded, gray-eyed writer lectured extensively about temperance between drinking bouts. He married eight women, seduced at least one other, and cavorted with prostitutes, one of whom beat him physically and legally. It wasn’t until 1869 that, en route home from a temperance speaking tour in California, he met Cody in Nebraska, while trying to make contact with another Western star, “Wild Bill” Hickok. Judson’s time with his last three wives overlapped his time with Cody. Their subsequent fight over Judson’s Civil War pension provides not only a unique glimpse into the mind of a narcissistic genius, but also a panoramic view of America’s past forcibly displayed by white, Protestant manhood. The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline captures the likeness of a man whose life was a landscape littered with contradictions--a man whose readers often forgave his Jekyll-and-Hyde behavior because of his inventive portrayal of a country trying to subdue the last of its natural landscapes and make sense of its teeming cities. It will be, at last, an open-eyed look at the man who sparked an American legend but whose own scandalous life somehow escaped history's limelight.
Author : Marc Simmons
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826332967
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.