A Right Fine Life: Kit Carson on the Santa Fe Trail

The author uses some incidents out of Kit's life to tell a "tall tale" about his first experience on the trail, just before he turned 17.
As an afterword, he includes information about the Santa Fe Trail and the westward pioneering of the mountain men and merchants, and brief biographical data.

I am from California and went to Kit Carson Elementary and always wanted to know who he was. This book taught me a little about who Kit Carson was and what he did.

This book follows along on Kit Carson's journey on the Santa Fe Trail, which eventually makes him famous. Although he had many negative experiences (fleas, storms, fires), he still managed to persevere through. The end of the trail was just the beginning for this mountain man..

Shortly before his sixteenth birthday, Kit Carson leaves his home in Missouri, heads out for Santa Fe, and begins a series of adventures as a legendary mountain man.