Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson. John S. C. Abbott

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       John S. C. Abbott

      Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066243531

Table of Contents

       Christopher Carson .

       CHAPTER I.

       Early Training.

       CHAPTER II.

       Life in the Wilderness.

       CHAPTER III.

       Among the Trappers.

       CHAPTER IV.

       Conflicts with the Indians.

       CHAPTER V.

       Marches and Encampments.

       CHAPTER VI.

       The Rendezvous.

       CHAPTER VII.

       War with the Blackfeet Indians.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       Encampments and Battles.

       CHAPTER IX.

       The Trapper's Elysium.

       CHAPTER X.

       Fremont's Expedition.

       CHAPTER XI.

       The Return of the Expedition.

       CHAPTER XII.

       Marches and Battles.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       The Dispatch Bearer.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       The Chivalry of the Wilderness.

       CHAPTER XV.

       Recollections of Mountain Life.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       Recollections of Mountain Life.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       Frontier Desperadoes and Savage Ferocity.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       The Last Days of Kit Carson.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       The Last Hours of Kit Carson.

Christopher Carson.

       Table of Contents

CHAPTER I.

       Table of Contents

Early Training.

       Table of Contents

      Birth of Christopher Carson.—Perils of the Wilderness.—Necessary Cautions.—Romance of the Forest.—The Far West.—The Encampment.—The Cabin and the Fort.—Kit an Apprentice.—The Alarm.—Destruction of a Trading Band.—The Battle and the Flight.—Sufferings of the Fugitives.—Dreadful Fate of Mr. Schenck.—Features of the Western Wilderness.—The March.

      Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country, was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809. Large portions of Kentucky then consisted of an almost pathless wilderness, with magnificent forests, free from underbrush, alive with game, and with luxuriant meadows along the river banks, inviting the settler's cabin and the plough.

      There were then many Indians traversing those wilds. The fearless emigrants, who ventured to rear their huts in such solitudes, found it necessary ever to be prepared for an attack.

      But very little reliance could be placed even in the friendly protestations of the vagabond savages, ever prowling about, and almost as devoid of intelligence or conscience, as the wolves which at midnight were heard howling around the settler's door. The family of Mr. Carson occupied a log cabin, which was bullet-proof, with portholes through which their rifles could command every approach. Women and children were alike taught the use of the rifle, that in case of an attack by any blood-thirsty gang, the whole family might