Kit Carson & his three wives
Subtitle: a family history
By: Marc Simmons.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A volume in the Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture; Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Carson, Kit, 1809-1868.; Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 -- Family.; Carson family.; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Pioneers' spouses -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Indian women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Hispanic American women -- New Mexico -- Taos -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Taos (N.M.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Kit Carson and his three wives.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.