Title: Kit Carson & his three wives
First published: 2003
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.
Subjects: Pioneers' spouses, Frontier and pioneer life, Family, Hispanic American women, Pioneers, Biography, Indian women, Carson, kit, 1809-1868, West (u.s.), biography, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), Taos (n.m.), New mexico, biography, Women, united states, biography
Places: West (U.S.), Taos (N.M.), New Mexico, Taos
People: Kit Carson (1809-1868), Carson family
LC classification: F592.C33 S56 2003