Kit Carson: Mountain Man
- ISBN-10
- 0736845100
- ISBN-13
- 9780736845106
- Series
- Kit Carson
- Category
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-08
- Publisher
- Capstone
- Author
- Tracey Boraas
Description
Traces the life of the well-known figure from the Old West, Kit Carson, from his childhood in Kentucky and Missouri, through his years as a trapper, explorer and soldier, to his death in Colorado in 1868.
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- 2011-11-10
- 320 pages
- Ebook
- University of Oklahoma Press
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- 2011-05-05
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- University of Oklahoma Press
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