Kit Carson & his three wives

Description:

In this family centered biography, independent scholar Simmons describes the lives of the three women who were married to frontiersman Kit Carson. They include Arapaho woman Waa-Nibe, who died three years after their marriage; Cheyenne woman Making Out Road, who divorced Carson after 14 months; and Josefa Jaramillo, the fourteen year old daughter of a prominent Taos family and mother of Carson's seven children.

subjects: Pioneers' spouses,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Family,  Hispanic American women,  Pioneers,  Biography,  Indian women,  Carson, kit, 1809-1868,  West (u.s.), biography,  Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.),  Taos (n.m.),  New mexico, biography,  Women, united states, biography

People: Kit Carson (1809-1868),  Carson family

Places: West (U.S.),  Taos (N.M.),  New Mexico,  Taos