Books with title Life of Kit Carson

Kit Carson, the quintessential frontiersman, is remembered as a larger-than-life mountain man, explorer, trapper, guide, soldier, Indian agent, officer, hunter, and rancher. In The Life of Kit Carson, Alan E. Grey invites young readers to join Kit as he strikes out on his own at the age of sixteen to find adventure along the beaver streams; ride with him and John Fremont as they explore the untamed West, taking cover as Kit trades gunfire in the Mexican-American War; and witness his encounters with Indians in the Navajo and Southern Plains campaigns. Composed of stories discovered through years of research, this book is an exciting and easy-to-read, action-packed tale. Young readers and adults alike will find both education and entertainment in this masterfully presented life story.

Kit Carson, the quintessential frontiersman, is remembered as a larger-than-life mountain man, explorer, trapper, guide, soldier, Indian agent, officer, hunter, and rancher. Now you can know the real man, the story behind the tales of adventure. The Life of Kit Carson takes a narrative approach to the telling of Kit Carson's life story. Follow along as Kit strikes out on his own at the age of sixteen to find adventure along the beaver streams. Ride with him and John Fremont as they explore the untamed west. Take cover with him as he trades gunfire in the Mexican-American War. Be there when he tangles with Indians in the Navaho and Southern Plains campaigns. These pages contain the stories found through years of detailed research and present them in an exciting and easy to read action-packed format. Young readers and adults will find both education and entertainment in this masterfully presented life story.

PARENTLESS at a young age, young Christopher Carson escapes his unfeeling guardian and sets out for what was to become Missouri. What young Carson himself was to become would be one of the greatest of all the legendary mountain men. Finding his way to Santa Fe on the famous trail, he meets up with the trappers and traders and the rest is history. Ellis’s telling of the life of Kit Carson is more than the dry chronicling of who, where, and when. A prolific writer of fact and fiction in his own name or in pseudonym, Ellis unravels the adventures of his subject in thrilling detail: enduring hard winters, pursuing Crow and Blackoot horse thieves, fending off grizzlies! Kit Carson’s reputation precedes him in his wanderings. He meets John C. Fremont and is commissioned as guide for the famous explorer’s first western expedition—the first of three in which he would take part. For his exploits in the U.S.–Mexican War, Carson was awarded a commission in the U.S. Army. Briefly turning to ranching, he is soon called back to lend his valuable services so many depended upon.