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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand), 1870-1952. Kit Carson days, 1809-1868. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1995 (OCoLC)604300378 |
| Named Person: | Kit Carson |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edwin L Sabin |
| ISBN: | 0803292376 9780803292376 0803292384 9780803292383 |
| OCLC Number: | 32590997 |
| Notes: | "Bison books"--P. preceding t.p. Originally published: New York : Press of the Pioneers, 1935. |
| Description: | 2 v. (xiv, 996 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | V. 1. The Carson family -- In old Missouri, 1811-1826 -- The road to Santa Fe, 1826 -- New Mexico and New Mexicans -- As fared the runaway, 1826-1829 -- The trapper's trail, 1829 -- American trappers in California, 1830 -- To the beaver Northwest, 1831 -- The mountain-man, his guise and his garb -- The mountain-man, by mule and by horse -- The mountain-man, on the beaver trail -- The mountain-man, at camp and rendezvous -- The mountain-man, domestic matters -- The mountain-man, the danger trail -- The roll call -- Adventures of Kit Carson, 1832 -- The fight for fur -- Adventures of Kit Carson, 1833-1834 -- The American wedge in Oregon -- Adventures of Kit Carson, 1834-1835 -- Adventures of Kit Carson, 1836-1838 -- The forking of the trail -- Bent's Fort of the Plains -- Bent, St. Vrain & Company -- Adventures of Kit Carson, 1838-1842 -- On the trail with Fremont, 1842 -- Carson makes a $300 turn -- On the trail with Fremont, 1843-1844 -- Carson's star in the ascendant -- Out again with Fremont, 1845 -- In again with Fremont, 1846 -- American rifles in California -- Fremont marches and counter-marches -- California for free Americans -- Carson on the glory trail -- v. 2. The conquest is completed -- Carson rides with the news -- Carson at San Pascual -- The conquest is again completed -- Carson across the continent, 1847 -- Carson in Washington, 1847 -- Again across the continent, 1848 -- Carson in Washington, 1848 -- Kit Carson settles down, 1848-1849 -- Adventures of Kit Carson, 1850-1853 -- Carson and the Indian, 1854-1861 -- Campaigns of the 'fifties -- The Civil War: Carson at Valverde, 1862 -- Corraling the Apache, 1862-1863 -- The nemesis of the Navajo, 1863-1864 -- The Battle of the Adobe Walls, 1864 -- Plains and mountain service, 1865-1867 -- Carson in letters -- Carson in Washington, 1868 -- Last days of the general, 1868 -- Kit Carson. |
| Series Title: | Bison books |
| Responsibility: | by Edwin L. Sabin ; with twenty full-page drawings by Howard Simon ; introduction by Marc Simmons. |
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