The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . apprenticed to a saddler, but two years later joinedan overland trading expedition to Santa Fe, and be-came a trapper, roaming over the plains betweenthe Rocky mountains and the Pa
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . apprenticed to a saddler, but two years later joinedan overland trading expedition to Santa Fe, and be-came a trapper, roaming over the plains betweenthe Rocky mountains and the Pacific ocean. Herehe became so expert in all mountaineering, huntingand trapping as to even surpass the Indians in fertility of resource and keenness ofobservation. For sixteen yearshis rifle supplied every particle offood on which he lived. and St. Vrain, Indian trad-ers, in 1831 engaged him to sup-ply their fort with provisions andfurs, and this he did for eightyears. In 1843, after the deathof his Indian wife, he broughthis daughter to St. Louis, Mo.,to be educated. Lieut. John , U. S. A., was then inthe city, preparing his first ex-pedition to explore the Rockymountains, and forthwith engagedCarson as guide. The expeditionlasted from June to September,and in it Fremont discoveredand ascended the peak which bears his name. Thenext year Carson returned to New Mexico, marrieda Spanish la
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