Great westerner the story of Kit Carson
Bernice Blackwelder
- Caldwell, Idaho Caxton Printers 1962
- 373 p.
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.