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Kit Carson and the wild frontier / Ralph Moody.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moody, Ralph, 1898-1982, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carson, Kit, 1809-1868.
- Carson, Kit.
- Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Scouts (Reconnaissance)--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Scouts (Reconnaissance).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Bison Books, [1995]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1. A Boy Worth One Cent
- 2. Wandering Runt of the Frontier
- 3. First Brass Tack
- 4. Mountain Man at Last
- 5. Little Chief of the Cheyennes
- 6. His "Worst Difficult Experience"
- 7. Kit the Giant Killer
- 8. The Hand of the Almighty
- 9. The Carson Men
- 10. Pathfinder for the Pathfinder
- 11. Conquest of California
- 12. For the United States
- 13. Father Kit of the Utes
- 14. Canyon De Chelly
- 15. The Battle of Adobe Walls
- 16. Adios, Compadre
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Moody, Ralph Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier
- ISBN:
- 9781496208248
- OCLC:
- 1289373073
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