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Dear Old Kit - The Historical Christopher Carson (Paperback, New Ed)
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Dear Old Kit - The Historical Christopher Carson (Paperback, New Ed)
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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. "I am an admirer of Carson," says Mr. Carter, "and have
no wish deliberately to debunk him, but I am interested in
correcting the statements of uncritical hero worship many by many
writers." Kit is allowed to speak for himself, as far as possible,
through an exact transcription of his dictated reminiscences made
from the manuscript in the Newberry Library, Chicago. Persons and
places are clearly identified, and Kit's slips of memory are
corrected in the definitive annotation of his account. One hundred
years of speculation about the identity of the man who transcribed
Carson's story is ended. Mr. Carter has established positive
identification, based on carefully assembled facts. A new
assessment of Kit's character and reputation is included, as well
as an annotated account of the last years of his life. This fresh
look at America's greatest western hero will interest professional
historians as well as all readers who head straight for the
"western" shelf in bookstores. Harvey L. Carter, author of a number
of books on the West, was Professor of History at Colorado College
and an Honorary Life Member of the Western History Association.
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