Dear Old Kit' the Historical Christopher Carson

by Harvey Lewis Carter

Book Overview

The Figure of Kit Carson strides through the literature of the American West in heroic size. Trader, trapper, scout, brigadier general of New Mexico Volunteers, and many other things besides, he has appealed to the public imagination as no other frontiersman has. Many biographies and who versions of his "autobiography" have been published. Yet much of the legend still remains to be separated from the facts, declares the author of this new biography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806122536
• ISBN13: 9780806122533
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"