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Great westerner

by Blackwelder, Bernice
Published by : Caxton Printers (Caldwell, Idaho) Physical details: 373 p. Year: 1962
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Item type Current location Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
sw 900 - 999 978.020924 Bla (Browse shelf) Available Memorial 38385

Border boy (1809-1828) --
Exploring with Ewing Young (1828-1831) --
Trapping with a broken hand's brigade (1831-1832) --
Mountain man (1832-1840) --
Hunter for Bent's Fort (1841-1842) --
Guide for Fremont's expedition to the Rockies (1842-1843) --
With Fremont's second expedition (1845-1846) --
With Fremont in California (1845-1846) --
With Kearny's Army of the West (1846) --
Twice across the continent (1847-1848) --
Rancher (1848-1854) --
Indian agent (1854-1859) --
Army colonel (1860-1863) --
Brigadier general (1863-1865) --
Trail's end (1866-1868).

Factual account of Kit Carson and of his career as trapper, adventurer, guide, soldier, and Indian agent, from his abandoned apprenticeship to a saddler in Missouri to his death in 1868.