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Blood and Thunder

Author : Hampton Sides
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307387674
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Thunder written by Hampton Sides and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Writing Kit Carson

Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469658844
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Writing Kit Carson written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo. Johnson's multilayered biography reveals the nature of relationships between women historians and male historical subjects and between history buffs and professional historians. It explores the practice of history in the context of everyday life, the seductions of gender in the context of racialized power, and the strange contours of twentieth-century relationships predicated on nineteenth-century pasts. On the surface, it tells a story of lives tangled across generation and geography. Underneath run probing questions about how we know about the past and how that knowledge is shaped by the conditions of our knowing.

Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496208242
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier written by Ralph Moody and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826 an undersized sixteen-year-old apprentice ran away from a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri, to join one of the first wagon trains crossing the prairie on the Santa Fe Trail. Kit Carson (1809-68) wanted to be a mountain man, and he spent his next sixteen years learning the paths of the West, the ways of its Native inhabitants, and the habits of the beaver, becoming the most successful and respected fur trapper of his time. From 1842 to 1848 he guided John C. Frémont's mapping expeditions through the Rockies and was instrumental in the U.S. military conquest of California during the Mexican War. In 1853 he was appointed Indian agent at Taos, and later he helped negotiate treaties with the Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, Arapahos, Cheyennes, and Utes that finally brought peace to the southwestern frontier. Ralph Moody's biography of Kit Carson, appropriate for readers young and old, is a testament to the judgment and loyalty of the man who had perhaps more influence than any other on the history and development of the American West.

Kit Carson

Author : Thelma S. Guild
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803270275
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson written by Thelma S. Guild and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of Kit Carson, discusses his activities as a guide in the West, and examines his role in the wars against the Indians

Kit Carson's Autobiography

Author : Kit Carson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803250314
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson's Autobiography written by Kit Carson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary nineteenth-century figure relates his experiences as a scout, soldier, trapper, Indian fighter, explorer, and government agent.

The Life of Kit Carson

Author : Edward S. Ellis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734054532
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Kit Carson written by Edward S. Ellis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Life of Kit Carson by Edward S. Ellis

Kit Carson and the Indians

Author : Thomas W. Dunlay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803266421
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson and the Indians written by Thomas W. Dunlay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson has become in recent years a historical pariah--a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, and an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. Here we are urged to reconsider Carson yet again. Carson was a man of the nineteenth century, whose racial views and actions were much like those of his contemporaries.

Kit Carson & His Three Wives

Author : Marc Simmons
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826332967
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson & His Three Wives written by Marc Simmons and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Kit Carson

Author : David Remley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806183276
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson written by David Remley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has portrayed Christopher "Kit" Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding Carson to be less than a mythical hero, but more than a simpleminded rascal with a rifle. Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between prevailing notions about this quintessential western figure. Whereas the dime novelists exploited Carson's popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was dependable, ethical, and—for his day—relatively open-minded. Sifting through the extensive scholarship about Kit, the author illuminates the key dimensions of Carson's life, including his often neglected Scots-Irish heritage. His people's dire poverty and restlessness, their clannish rural life and sternly Protestant character, committed Carson, like his Scots-Irish ancestors, to loyalty and duty and to following his leader into battle without question. Remley also places Carson in the context of his times by exploring his controversial relations with American Indians. Although despised for the merciless warfare he led on General James H. Carleton's behalf against the Navajos, Carson lived amicably among many Indian people, including the Utes, whom he served as U.S. government agent. Happily married to Waa-Nibe, an Arapaho woman, until her death, he formed a lasting friendship with their daughter, Adaline. Remley sees Carson as a complicated man struggling to master life on America's borders, those highly unstable areas where people of different races, cultures, and languages met, mixed, and fought, sometimes against each other, sometimes together, for the possession of home, hunting rights, and honor.

Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

Author : Kit Carson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life written by Kit Carson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kit Carson

Author : R. C. Gordon-McCutchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson written by R. C. Gordon-McCutchan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past twenty-five years, Carson's legacy has been the topic of intense debate among western historians, many who have suggested that Carson was racist, that he sought out and killed Navajos, destroying their sheep and food supply - that he played a major role in the forced removal of the Navajos from their traditional homelands in the Southwest. Though this theory has gained credence with the public, other scholars dispute those accounts and portray Carson, who lived alongside Indians most of his life, as a kind man who reluctantly fought several tribes only after joining the army. Carson's true actions and motivations are the subject of Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer? This volume brings together a distinguished group of western historians who explore the latest research on Carson in a attempt to separate fact from fiction by shedding further light on Carson's life.

Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls

Author : Alvin R. Lynn
Publisher : Grover E. Murray Studies in th
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls written by Alvin R. Lynn and published by Grover E. Murray Studies in th. This book was released on 2014 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following two journeys, Kit Carson's 1864 military expedition from Fort Bascom to Adobe Walls and Alvin Lynn's journey to document what happened are told"--

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson

Author : De Witt Clinton Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson written by De Witt Clinton Peters and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide

Author : Charles Burdett
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide written by Charles Burdett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Houston Carson, better known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman, hunter, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. He became a legend of the frontier in his own life as the main character of numerous biographies, news articles, and dime novels. This book presents the most important events of his life, interesting facts, and stories.

The Kit Carson Campaign

Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806116839
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book The Kit Carson Campaign written by Clifford E. Trafzer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kit Carson

Author :
Publisher : Classics Illustrated
ISBN 13 : 9781911238348
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson written by and published by Classics Illustrated. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826 an undersized sixteen-year-old apprentice ran away from a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri, to join one of the first wagon trains crossing the prairie on the Santa Fe Trail. Kit Carson wanted to be a mountain man, and he spent his next sixteen years learning the paths of the West, the ways of its Native inhabitants, and the habits of the beaver, becoming the most successful and respected fur trapper of his time. He lived among and married into the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes. He was hired by John C. Fremont as a guide, and led 'the Pathfinder' through much of California, Oregon and the Great Basin area.

Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

Author : Kit Carson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life written by Kit Carson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: