Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
|
Buy Now
Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life - Facsimile of original 1926 edition (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Loot Price: R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
You Save: R107
(18%)
|
|
Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life - Facsimile of original 1926 edition (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Series: Southwest Heritage
(sign in to rate)
List price R599
Loot Price R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
You Save R107 (18%)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Donate to Gift Of The Givers
Total price: R512
Discovery Miles: 5 120
|
In 1826 a seventeen-year-old Christopher "Kit" Carson ran away from
his job as apprentice to a saddler in Franklin, Missouri and joined
a merchant caravan bound for Santa Fe in the far Southwest. The
flight marked his entry into the pages of history. In the decades
that followed, Carson gained renown as a trapper, hunter, guide,
rancher, army courier, Indian agent, and military officer. Along
the way, his varied career as a frontiersman elevated him to the
status of a national hero, on a par with Daniel Boone. In 1856,
while at home with his family in Taos, New Mexico, Kit (being
illiterate) dictated his autobiography, which dealt with the
innumerable adventures he had experienced to that point. However,
some of the most significant episodes in his life would unfold in
the ensuing years, leading up to his death in 1868. Since Taos
artist and writer Blanche Chloe Grant first edited and published
the Carson manuscript in 1926, it has become the central source for
all subsequent biographers. In 1935 Milo Milton Quaife annotated
another edition under the title of "Kit Carson's Autobiography,"
published by Lakeside Press of Chicago, and afterward reprinted by
the University of Nebraska Press. Western historian Harvey Lewis
Carter followed suit with publication of the most heavily edited
version yet, with his "'Dear Old Kit': The Historical Christopher
Carson" (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968). Sunstone
Press by electing to bring back into print Miss Grant's original
1926 book, regarded perhaps as the handiest of the three published
versions, calls attention anew to this pioneering memoir of the
celebrated Kit Carson.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.