Rachel Saunders Period 3 Kit Carson Mr.Toledo, November 11, 2015 Kit Carson (Christopher Houston Carson) was born on Christmas Eve in the year of 1809. He was the ninth child of fourteen kids. Kit spent most of his early childhood in Boones Lick, Missouri. His father, Lindsey Carson, fought in the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), the war the Americans fought to gain their independence from Great Britain. Lindsey Carson married Rebecca Robinson in 1796. When he was nine years old, Kit’s father was killed in a tragic accident. Kit never learned how to read. “Fact—he later tried to hide it and was ashamed.” Because his dad died when he was so young, he was forced to go to work. It is doubtful that Kit Carson …show more content…
When Kit was nineteen, he was hired for a fur trapping expedition. He went on many expeditions that took him all the way to California and even the Rocky Mountains in the 1830’s. He was an American Frontiersmen. The few paying jobs he had in his lifetime included mountain man, Indian agent, cook, and errand boy. From 1846 until the end of the war with Mexico, he alternated fighting in the war and guiding. In 1861 he was back in the field to serve the cause of the union in the United States civil war. Many white trappers lived among the Indians and Kit Carson did also. His first two wives were Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians. He was married three times and had ten children. At age sixteen he left his home to become a fur trapper. In the 1840’s, he was hired as a guide by John C. Fremont. He was still working for him in 1846 when the Mexican-American war and he led U. S. forces from New Mexico to California. After the war, Kit moved back to New Mexico and took up ranching. Again he went to California but his time he led sheep and was paid a high price because it was during the gold
King’s stowaway status soon came to an end, and he was employed as a crewmember on steamboats. Captains taught him to navigate the boats on rivers in Florida and Alabama, and his acute sense of learning gave way to him becoming a captain (KING RANCH). Capt. King plied the waters of Alabama until 1842. In that year he served aboard boa...
When he was fifteen, the family moved to the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina, a trek that took over a year. At nineteen or twenty he left his family home with a military expedition in the French and Indian War. There he met John Finley, a hunter who had seen some of the western wilds, who told him stories that set him dreaming. But Boone was not quite ready to pursue the explorer's life. Back home on his father's farm he began courting a neighbor's daughter, Rebecca Bryan, and soon they were married.
...cument, but within a short time converted his course to one of separation and independence from Mexico. He became involved with the drafting of the constitution for the Republic f Texas in 1836 of which Zavalla was elected Vice-President. He served in that role until failing health caused him to relinquish that post. A month later, he was dead after a boat he was in upset in Buffalo Bayou, soaking him in cold water, which resulted in him contracting pneumonia. (www.tshaonline.org)
He stay in the US Army Signal Corps, he was helping in the Cuba and Philippines during the Philippine...
explore the area. Then he got a job as guide to the Yosemite. Muir quickly
...ed unsuccessfully to his last year plan as Senator of a protectorate over Mexico. Once again, his name was mentioned to be nominated for the presidency in May 1860 by the National Union party, lost to John Bell. With the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States, discontent in Texas made him call a special session of the legislature. He was opposed to secession, and warned Texans that civil war would be the destruction of the South. The Secession Convention began actions to withdraw Texas from the Union. Houston accepted the events but refused to take the oath of loyalty to the Confederate States of America, he was removed from office. He refused the assistance of federal troops from the President Lincoln to keep in office and Texas in the Union to spare Texas from violence and at the age of sixty-eight chose the exile from public life.
He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York and excelled in mathematics, writing, drawing, and horsemanship. After graduating, he was assigned to an infantry company in Missouri. His company soon moved south to prepare for the conflict brewing with Mexico over disputed Texas territory. From 1846 to 1848, Grant fought in the Mexican War and was twice cited for bravery. After the war, Grant moved to various Army postings in Detroit, New York, and the Pacific Northwest. He resigned suddenly from the Army in 1854 and returned to the Midwest to be with his family. Grant then attempted a variety of jobs, including farming and insurance sales, before finding work in his family's leather goods store in Galena, Illinois. Through these difficult times, he relied on his wife, Julia Dent Grant. The two were a devoted couple and adoring parents to their four
After the Civil War, Powell became a professor of science at Illinois Weslyan and curator of the Illinois State Natural History museum. In 1867 he went on his first expedition to Colorado and began his life-long love affair with the American West and the native peoples who lived there. The next year he went back to Colorado and spent the winter amon...
He and thousands of other Hmong (the village people) fled their homes and went hiding in the
1937 to cover the Spanish Civil War for a newspaper. While in Europe he met a journalist named Martha Gelhorn. He soon after married her, but the marriage only lasted 4 years (lib.utexas.edu).
Among the Plains tribes Lewis and Clark met were the Osage, Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, and Mandan. Upon reaching the Rocky Mountains, Lewis and Clark entered the country of the Plateau Indians. Living here were the Blackfeet, Flathead, Shoshone, Nez Perce, Spokane, and Yakima Indians. Along the way Lewis and clark ran into some Hidatsa warriors, While they were in North Dakota for 146 days some Hidatsa Warriors were with them
In 1873 He married Louie Wanda Strentzel and turned her family's farm in Martinez, California, into a profitable orchard business. After 10 years on the farm the forests called to him. with his wife Louie he went back to yosemite with his wife. scared of bears and her slow pace he would not bring her along again. But he continued to do work.
He went out to the badlands of western Dakota to become a rancher on the Little Missouri River; when he came back to Manhattan he was Teddy, the straight shooter from the west, the elkhunter, the man in the Stetson hat, who rop’d steers, fought a grizzly hand to hand, acted as deputy sheriff (Dos Passos, pg. 111)
They continued their journey by train but were too broke and had to stop. His father later on became a coal miner in Ohio and Pennsylvania for four years. After he quit they moved to Florence, Nebraska joining the Saints in Capt. John Murdock’s company and headed west.
In 1880 he married Louie Wanda Strentzel and moved to Martinez, California, where they raised their daughters, Wanda and Helen. Getting used to domestic life, Muir was associated with Louie’s father and led the family ranch and fruit production with great success. But ten years on the ranch did not exhaust his wanderlust. He traveled to Alaska many times and also to Australia, South America, Africa, Europe and of course back to his beloved Sierra