In 1864 famed frontiersman Kit Carson took a force of several hundred soldiers into the heart of the Llano Estacada in an ...

In 1849 a trader named James White decided to break from his wagon train and push on ahead with just his family and a few men. The outcome was about as bad as anything you could imagine; the men were ...

I. The Carson of history and legend -- II. The Kit Carson memoirs, 1809-1856 -- III. The closing years, 1857-1868 -- IV. Carson the man : a new appraisal -- Appendix A : A chronology of Kit Carson's ...

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 ...