Author

Publication

2003 - University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Language

English

Word Count

48,750 words, Guess

Page Count

195 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing2633481

Classifications

  • DDC978/.02/0922
  • LCCF592.C33 S56 2003

Alternate Titles

  • Kit Carson and his three wives.

Description

In this family centered biography, independent scholar Simmons describes the lives of the three women who were married to frontiersman Kit Carson. They include Arapaho woman Waa-Nibe, who died three years after their marriage; Cheyenne woman Making Out Road, who divorced Carson after 14 months; and Josefa Jaramillo, the fourteen year old daughter of a prominent Taos family and mother of Carson's seven children.

Subjects

Topics

FamilyPioneersBiographyTaos (n.m.)Indian womenCarson family.Pioneers' spouses

Genres

  • Biography.

Series Statement

  • A volume in the Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture

Other Editions

  • Kit Carson & his three wives: a family historyUniversity of New Mexico Press2003-01-01

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