John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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CHRISTOPHER CARSON

Familiarly known as Kit Carson

The Pioneer of the west

from

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

With Illustrations of Eleanor Greatorex

New York:
Dodd & Mead, No 762 Broadway

1874







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Pioneers and Patriots of America

Of John S. C. ABBOTT

Every one volume, 12mo illustrated, $1.50.

DANIEL BOONE

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FERDINANDO DE SOTO

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DAVID CROCKETT.

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PREFACE


It is a prominent object of this volume to bring for turning on the wild one
adventures of the pioneers of this continent, in the loneliness of the
mountains, the grasslands and the forests;  often among Indian hostile, and
far street from the limitations and protection of the civilization. This strange,
strange-as the life you/he/she is quickly passing street, in front of the progress of
population, railroads and steamboats. But it is desirable that the memory
of he should not go adrift to forgetfulness. I think that almost every reader of
this account will be amazed rather, in its development of the
character of Christopher Carson. With energy and the fearlessness
it never overcame, certainly he was one of the kindest, right, and
agreeable of men. It is strange that the wild region had been able to form this way
respectable a character. America won't allow the virtues of this way
illustrious a child to be forgotten.

JOHN S.C. ABBOTT.




CONTAINED.


CHAPTER ME.

First Training.

Birth of Christopher Carson.--Dangers of the wild Region.--Necessary
   Cautions.--Novel of the Forest.--The Far the west.--The
   Camp.--The Box and the Strong one.--You equip an Apprentice.--The
   Alarm.--The destruction of a Commerce Ribbon.--The Battle and the
   Flight.--The sufferings of the Fugitives.--Terrible fate of Mr.
   Schenck.--Characteristics of the Western wild Region.--The March.


I CAPITULATE II.

The life in the wild Region.

A Surgical Operation.--A Winter with Log Falls.--Study of the
   Languages and the Geography.--Return toward Missouri.--Appointment with
   a new Society and Strange Adventures.--The rattlesnakes.--Anecdote