Kit Carson & his three wives : a family history / Marc Simmons
Object Details
- Author
- Simmons, Marc
- Subject
- Carson, Kit 1809-1868
- Carson, Kit 1809-1868 Family
- Carson family
- Contents
- Introduction -- Waa-nibe -- Making out road -- Josefa -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
- Summary
- 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.
- 2003
- Type
- Biography
- Physical description
- x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place
- West (U.S.)
- New Mexico
- Taos
- Taos (N.M.)
- Title
- Kit Carson and his three wives
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Pioneers
- Pioneers' spouses
- Indian women
- Hispanic American women
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Record ID
- siris_sil_1069117
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
