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Kit Carson and the wild frontier / Ralph Moody.

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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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