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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, Seth Kinman, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Harry Yount, Mountain man, John Colter, James Beckwourth, Manuel Lisa, Benjamin Bonneville, Ben Lilly, Thomas Tate Tobin, Mike Fink, Boone Helm, Jim Bridger, Robert Newell, Hugh Glass, Joseph Meek, John David Albert, Liver-Eating Johnson, Hawken rifle, George W. Ebbert, Coonskin cap, Jim Baker, William S. Williams, Osborne Russell, Rufus Sage, Pauline Weaver, George Nidever, Antoine Godin, James "Grizzly" Adams, Stephen Meek, William Sublette, Louis Vasquez, Thomas L. Smith, James Kirker, Joseph R. Walker, James Clyman, List of Mountain Men, Elbridge Trask, Rocky Mountain Fur Company, Milton Sublette, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, William Craig, Isaac Graham, Ashley's Hundred. Excerpt: Apache Wars American Civil War Navajo Wars Texas-Indian Wars Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 - May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman. Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at age 16 and became a trapper in the West. He gained renown for his role as John C. Fremont's guide in the American West. Carson also played a minor role in California's Bear Flag Revolt during the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War. Born in Madison County, Kentucky, near the city of Richmond, in 1809 Carson moved at the age of one year with his parents and siblings to a rural area near Franklin, Missouri. Carson's father, Lindsey Carson, a farmer of Scots-Irish descent, had fought in the Revolutionary War under General Wade Hampton. He had a total of fifteen Carson children: five by Lucy Bradley, his first wife, and ten by Kit Carson's mother, Rebecca Robinson. Kit Carson was the eleventh child in the family. He was known from an early age as "Kit." The Carson family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of Daniel Boone, who had purchased the l...
