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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 BYELEANOR GREATOREX

New York:Dodd & Mead, No. 762 Broadway

1874

Newburgh Stereotype Co.

Lange, Little & Co.,

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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 wildadventures of the pioneers of this continent, in the solitudes of themountains, the prairies and the forests; often amidst hostile Indians, andfar away from the restraints and protection of civilization. This strange,weird-like life is rapidly passing away, before the progress ofpopulation, railroads and steamboats. But it is desirable that the memoryof it should not drift into oblivion. I think that almost every reader ofthis narrative will be somewhat surprised, in its development of thecharacter of Christopher Carson. With energy and fearlessnessnever surpassed, he was certainly one of the most gentle, upright, andlovable of men. It is strange that the wilderness could have formed soestimable a character. America will not permit the virtues of soillustrious a son to be forgotten.

JOHN S.C. ABBOTT.

CONTENTS.