Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: United States Indian agents, Kit Carson, Henry Schoolcraft, O. M. Wozencraft, William Clark, Thomas Posey, Henry Gratiot, Isaac McCoy, William Wells, Robert Neighbors, Nathan Meeker, Lindsay Applegate, Benjamin Hawkins, George Davenport, Joseph M. Street, John Marsh, Robert Newell, Oliver Cromwell Applegate, Jean Pierre Chouteau, John Clum, Alonzo Ridley, Return J. Meigs, Sr., Nicholas Boilvin, Elijah White, Alonzo A. Skinner, James O'Neill, Thomas Forsyth, Larry EchoHawk, John Tipton, Felix St. Vrain, William Cocke, John Beach, Lee Moorhouse, George Morgan, Leander Clark, John Johnston, John Q. Tufts, Tom Jeffords, Marie Wadley, James McLaughlin, Rickard D. Gwydir, Valentine McGillycuddy, David Brydie Mitchell, Robert Wilkinson Furnas, Pierce Mason Butler, John H. Kinzie, Cato Sells, Walter A. Burleigh, Carl J. Artman, Wiley Thompson, William E. Fuller, Whitmore Knaggs, Allen Hamilton, Joseph R. Brown, Charles B. Lohmiller, John McKee, Indian agency police, Thomas J. Galbraith, William Craig, Bernard Smith. Excerpt: Apache Wars American Civil War Navajo Wars Texas-Indian Wars Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 - May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman. Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at age 16 and became a trapper in the West. He gained renown for his role as John C. Fremont's guide in the American West. Carson also played a minor role in California's Bear Flag Revolt during the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War. Born in Madison County, Kentucky, near the city of Richmond, in 1809 Carson moved at the age of one year with his parents and siblings to a rural area near Franklin, Missouri. Carson's father, Lindsey Carson, a farmer of Scots-Irish descent, had fought in the Revolutionary War under General Wade Hampton. He had a total of fifteen Carson children: five by Lucy Bradley, his fi...