konserwowanie: Kit Carson

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Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868), popularly known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and U.S. Army officer. Carson left home in rural Missouri at 16 to become a mountain man and trapper in the West. In the 1830s, he accompanied Ewing Young on an expedition to Mexican California and joined fur-trapping expeditions into the Rocky Mountains. He lived among and married into the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes. In the 1840s, Carson was hired as a guide by John C. Frémont, whose expeditions covered much of California, Oregon, and the Great Basin area. Frémont mapped and wrote reports and commentaries on the Oregon Trai…

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Carson, Kit (1809-1868), mountain man, army officer, and Indian agent

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Crafting Kit Carson, 1950s–1960s. Part I focuses on the 1950s and early 60s, chronicling Quantrille McClung and Bernice Blackwelder work on their reappraisals of frontiersman Christopher “Kit” Carson. It situates their work vis-à-vis amateur, academic, and popular culture portrayals of the West were created when history buffs and Hollywood moguls, not university-trained scholars, monopolized regional representations. To trace both macro- and micro-historical contexts for the production of knowledge about the past, Part I explores the daily lives of McClung in downtown Denver and Blackwelder in suburban Washington, D.C., and it shows how Cold War politics and racial change shaped their work.…

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James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old Gabe in his later years. He was from the Bridger family of Virginia, English settlers who had arrived in North America in the early colonial period. Bridger was of the second generation of American mountain men and pathfinders who followed the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. He participated in early expeditions into the west and mediated between Native American tribes and westward-migrating European-American settlers. By the end of his life, he had…

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Thomas Tate Tobin (May 1, 1823 – May 15, 1904) was an American adventurer, tracker, trapper, mountain man, guide, US Army scout, and occasional bounty hunter. Tobin explored much of southern Colorado, including the Pueblo area. He associated with men such as Kit Carson, "Uncle Dick" Wootton, Ceran St. Vrain, Charley Bent, John C. Fremont, "Wild Bill" Hickok, William F. Cody, and the Shoup brothers. Tobin was one of only two men to escape alive from the siege of Turley's Mill and Distillery during the Taos Revolt. In later years he was sent by the Army to track down and kill the notorious Felipe Espinosa and his nephew, Jose Vincente Espinosa; Tobin returned to Ft. Garland with their heads i…