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Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 1: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 1 (Revised Edition) - Tapa blanda

Sabin, Edwin L.

 
9780803292376: Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 1: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 1 (Revised Edition)
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ISBN 10: 0803292376 ISBN 13: 9780803292376
Editorial: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Sinopsis

Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and prosperity as a wrangler, teamster, and trapper. He lives all over the unplotted West, helping to open trails, harvesting fur, befriending mountain men, and fighting and trading with Indians. Carson's reputation grows after John C. Frémont engages him as guide in 1842. He proves indispensable to the Pathfinder in three expeditions and plays a part in the Bear Flag Rebellion. The first volume is an encyclopedia of activity in the West during the first part of the nineteenth century, bringing into play such figures as Ewing Young, William Ashley, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Hugh Glass, John Colter, William Sublette, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, William Bent, Stephen Kearny, President James K. Polk, John Sutter, and Nathaniel Wyeth. This revised edition includes vivid chapters on the mountain man, his character, habits, clothing, and equipment. Edwin L. Sabin, author of Wild Men of the West, concludes with an assessment of Carson's character and place in history. Introducing these volumes is Marc Simmons, an authority on Carson and the author of Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande, also available in a Bison Books edition.

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Edwin L. Sabin, author of Wild Men of the West, concludes with an assessment of Carson's character and place in history. Introducing these volumes is Marc Simmons, an authority on Carson and the author of Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande, also available as a Bison Book.

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Editorial
University of Nebraska Press
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0803292376
ISBN 13 
9780803292376
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Ilustrador
Simon Howard
Número de páginas
512
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