Simmons, Marc
Kit Carson & his three wives : a family history / Kit Carson and his three wives. Marc Simmons - 1st ed. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2003. - x, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - A volume in the Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture .
Introduction -- Waa-nibe -- Making out road -- Josefa -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
082633296X (alk. paper) 9780826332967 (alk. paper)
2003006702
Carson, Kit 1809-1868 --Family
Pioneers--West (U.S.)
Pioneers' spouses--West (U.S.)
Indian women--West (U.S.)
Hispanic American women--New Mexico--Taos
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
Frontier
West (U.S.)
Taos (N.M.)
978.020922 Sim 48
Kit Carson & his three wives : a family history / Kit Carson and his three wives. Marc Simmons - 1st ed. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2003. - x, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - A volume in the Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture .
Introduction -- Waa-nibe -- Making out road -- Josefa -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
082633296X (alk. paper) 9780826332967 (alk. paper)
2003006702
Carson, Kit 1809-1868 --Family
Pioneers--West (U.S.)
Pioneers' spouses--West (U.S.)
Indian women--West (U.S.)
Hispanic American women--New Mexico--Taos
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
Frontier
West (U.S.)
Taos (N.M.)
978.020922 Sim 48