| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 367 pages) : maps, portraits |
| Contents |
Preface -- Chapter 1 : Moving West -- Chapter 2: Across the Prairie -- Chapter 3: Too Small, Too Young, Too Green -- Chapter 4: Trapping to California -- Chapter 5: Rocky Mountain Men -- Chapter 6: Kit Takes a Wife -- Chapter 7: Blackfoot Country -- Chapter 8: Decline of the Mountain Men -- Chapter 9: Carson Meets Frémont -- Chapter 10: Lost in the Great Basin -- Chapter 11: Across the High Sierra -- Chapter 12: Waiting for War -- Chapter 13: The Conquest of California -- Chapter 14: Famous Dispatch Rider -- Chapter 15: Farmer and Scout -- Chapter 16: Agent to the Utes -- Chapter 17: Kit Fights to Save the Union -- Chapter 18: The Navajo Campaign -- Chapter 19: The Coup at Adobe Walls -- Chapter 20: General Carson and the Utes -- Chapter 21: Adios -- Afterword |
| Summary |
Kit Carson was shown on the cover of an old dime novel slaying six Indians with one hand while protecting a fair maiden with the other. Stories about him, mainly apocryphal, circulated well before his death in 1868 and have been handed down in a multitude of biographies. Now Harvey L. Carter joins with Thelma S. Guild to present the fullest, most authoritative biography of Kit Carson ever written. Carefully separating myth from fact, the authors draw on a wide variety of sources, published and unpublished, including private letters. Their scrupulous restoration of Kit Carson in his geographical and historical setting proves that scholarship can have entertaining results: Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes is a cracking good adventure story |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Carson, Kit, 1809-1868.
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Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 fast |
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Carson, Kit 1809-1868 gnd |
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Carson, Kit. swd |
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Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History
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Scouting (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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Pioneers
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Scouting (Reconnaissance)
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Soldiers
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Biografie
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West (U.S.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146151
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West United States
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Carter, Harvey L. (Harvey Lewis), 1904-1994.
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| ISBN |
0585310564 |
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9780585310565 |
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