Project Gutenberg 2013-01-18 Public domain in the USA. 87 Burdett, Charles 1815 21020800 Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide Produced by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide" by Charles Burdett is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The narrative chronicles the life and adventures of Christopher Carson, known as Kit Carson, highlighting his legendary status as a frontiersman, hunter, guide, and Indian fighter in the American West. The book promises to deliver thrilling tales of Carson’s exploits among various cultures and landscapes, as he navigates the wild territories from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast. At the start of the text, the author sets the stage for Kit Carson's extraordinary life, detailing his background, early influences, and the circumstances that shaped his character. From his modest beginnings in Missouri, Carson's transition from a saddler's apprentice to a daring hunter and trapper is vividly illustrated. The opening remarks emphasize Carson's modesty and bravery, as they prepare the reader for a series of captivating adventures filled with challenges and encounters with Native American tribes, detailing his experiences and the skills he honed in the rugged wilderness of the western frontiers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41864/41864-h/images/cover.jpg en Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Carson Kit, 1809-1868 F590.3 Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American 510742 510752 2024-09-17T13:58:42.741573 2023-09-18T08:48:20.617898 text/html text/html 516231 2013-01-17T19:25:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 658869 2013-01-17T19:28:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 710909 2024-09-17T13:58:49.606512 application/epub+zip 714938 2024-09-17T13:58:44.026513 application/epub+zip 266812 2024-09-17T13:58:43.420555 application/epub+zip 867963 2024-09-17T13:58:54.275477 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 809427 2024-09-17T13:58:48.957542 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 362733 2022-09-19T07:11:49.589025 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 465149 2024-09-17T13:58:42.032566 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 464880 2013-01-17T19:25:54 text/plain; charset=utf-8 173566 2013-01-17T19:28:20 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 464823 2013-01-17T19:26:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 173509 2013-01-17T19:28:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 464874 2013-01-17T19:28:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 173464 2013-01-17T19:28:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21666 2024-09-17T13:58:54.423469 application/rdf+xml 22874 2024-09-17T13:58:43.534552 image/jpeg 2981 2024-09-17T13:58:43.477549 image/jpeg 658861 2024-09-17T13:58:42.803521 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog