Abbott follows Kit Carson from his frontier boyhood into the life of the fur trappers: their marches and camps, the summer rendezvous, fights with the Blackfeet and other peoples, and the scouting and guiding that made him famous. The book belongs to a series of popular lives of American pioneers.
Lively frontier history written for a mass audience in 1873, with that era’s view of Native Americans as savages. Download the free EPUB.