The Project Gutenberg eBook, Christopher Carson, by John S. C. Abbott, Illustrated by Eleanor Greatorex

Title: Christopher Carson

Author: John S. C. Abbott

Release Date: December 3, 2004 [eBook #14243]

Language: English

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AMERICAN PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS

CHRISTOPHER CARSON

FAMILIARLY KNOWN

AS

KIT CARSON

The Pioneer of the West.

BY

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELEANOR GREATOREX

New York: Dodd & Mead, No. 762 Broadway

1874

Newburgh Stereotype Co.

Lange, Little & Co.,

PRINTERS,

108 to 114 Wooster Street, N.Y.

Pioneers and Patriots of America.

By JOHN S.C. ABBOTT.

Each one volume, 12mo, illustrated, $1.50.

• DANIEL BOONE,
  • MILES STANDISH,
    • FERDINAND DE SOTO,
      • PETER STUYVESANT,
        • KIT CARSON,
          • DAVID CROCKETT.

Other Volumes in preparation.

PREFACE.

It is a prominent object of this volume to bring to light the wild adventures of the pioneers of this continent, in the solitudes of the mountains, the prairies and the forests; often amidst hostile Indians, and far away from the restraints and protection of civilization. This strange, weird-like life is rapidly passing away, before the progress of population, railroads and steamboats. But it is desirable that the memory of it should not drift into oblivion. I think that almost every reader of this narrative will be somewhat surprised, in its development of the character of Christopher Carson. With energy and fearlessness never surpassed, he was certainly one of the most gentle, upright, and lovable of men. It is strange that the wilderness could have formed so estimable a character. America will not permit the virtues of so illustrious a son to be forgotten.

JOHN S.C. ABBOTT.

CONTENTS.