Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson the Pioneer of the West E-Book

John S. C. Abbott

• Herausgeber: Arcadia Press
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (1809 – 1868) was an American frontiersman. He was a mountain man (fur trapper), wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. Carson became a frontier legend in his own lifetime via biographies and news articles. Exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels.Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at age 16 to become a mountain man and trapper in the West. In the 1830s, he accompanied Ewing Young on an expedition to Mexican California and joined fur trapping expeditions into the Rocky Mountains. He lived among and married into the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes.In the 1840s, he was hired as a guide by John C. Fremont. Fremont's expedition covered much of California, Oregon, and the Great Basin area. Fremont mapped and wrote reports and commentaries on the Oregon Trail to assist and encourage westward-bound American pioneers. Carson achieved national fame through Fremont's accounts of his expeditions.Under Fremont's command, Carson participated in the uprising against Mexican rule in California at the beginning of the Mexican-American War. Later in the war, Carson was a scout and courier, celebrated for his rescue mission after the Battle of San Pasqual and for his coast-to-coast journey from California to Washington, DC to deliver news of the conflict in California to the U.S. government. In the 1850s, he was appointed as the Indian agent to the Ute Indians and the Jicarilla Apaches.During the American Civil War, Carson led a regiment of mostly Hispanic volunteers from New Mexico on the side of the Union at the Battle of Valverde in 1862. When the Confederate threat to New Mexico was eliminated, Carson led forces to suppress the Navajo, Mescalero Apache, and the Kiowa and Comanche Indians.Carson was breveted a Brigadier General and took command of Fort Garland, Colorado. He was there only briefly: poor health forced him to retire from military life. Carson was married three times and had ten children. The Carson home was in Taos, New Mexico. Carson died at Fort Lyon, Colorado, of an aortic aneurysm on May 23, 1868. He is buried in Taos, New Mexico, next to his third wife Josefa Jaramillo.

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John S. C. Abbott

CHRISTOPHER CARSON

Familiarly known as Kit Carson the pioneer of the West

Copyright © John S. C. Abbott

Christopher Carson

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE

COPYRIGHT

CHRISTOPHER CARSON

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE - Early Training

CHAPTER TWO - Life in the Wilderness

CHAPTER THREE - Among the Trappers

CHAPTER FOUR - Conflicts with the Indians

CHAPTER FIVE - Marches and Encampments

CHAPTER SIX - The Rendezvous

CHAPTER SEVEN - War with the Blackfeet Indians

CHAPTER EIGHT - Encampments and Battles

CHAPTER NINE - The Trapper’s Elysium

CHAPTER TEN - Fremont’s Expedition

CHAPTER ELEVEN - The Return of the Expedition

CHAPTER TWELVE - Marches and Battles

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - The Dispatch Bearer

CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Chivalry of the Wilderness

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Recollections of Mountain Life

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - More Recollections of Mountain Life

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Frontier Desperadoes and Savage Ferocity

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - The Last Days of Kit Carson

CHAPTER NINETEEN - The Last Hours of Kit Carson

CHRISTOPHER CARSON

PREFACE

It is a prominent object of this volume to bring to light the wild adventures of the pioneers of this continent, in the solitudes of the mountains, the prairies and the forests; often amidst hostile Indians, and far away from the restraints and protection of civilization. This strange, weird-like life is rapidly passing away, before the progress of population, railroads and steamboats. But it is desirable that the memory of it should not drift into oblivion. I think that almost every reader of this narrative will be somewhat surprised, in its development of the character of Christopher Carson. With energy and fearlessness never surpassed, he was certainly one of the most gentle, upright, and lovable of men. It is strange that the wilderness could have formed so estimable a character. America will not permit the virtues of so illustrious a son to be forgotten.

JOHN S.C. ABBOTT.