Author: Kit Carson
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life
Author: Kit Carson
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life
Author: Kit Carson
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Kit Carson's Autobiography
Author: Kit Carson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The legendary nineteenth-century figure relates his experiences as a scout, soldier, trapper, Indian fighter, explorer, and government agent.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The legendary nineteenth-century figure relates his experiences as a scout, soldier, trapper, Indian fighter, explorer, and government agent.
Dear Old Kit
Author: Harvey Lewis Carter
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806122533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806122533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life
Author: Kit Carson
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Writing Kit Carson
Author: Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469658844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo. Johnson's multilayered biography reveals the nature of relationships between women historians and male historical subjects and between history buffs and professional historians. It explores the practice of history in the context of everyday life, the seductions of gender in the context of racialized power, and the strange contours of twentieth-century relationships predicated on nineteenth-century pasts. On the surface, it tells a story of lives tangled across generation and geography. Underneath run probing questions about how we know about the past and how that knowledge is shaped by the conditions of our knowing.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469658844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher "Kit" Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo. Johnson's multilayered biography reveals the nature of relationships between women historians and male historical subjects and between history buffs and professional historians. It explores the practice of history in the context of everyday life, the seductions of gender in the context of racialized power, and the strange contours of twentieth-century relationships predicated on nineteenth-century pasts. On the surface, it tells a story of lives tangled across generation and geography. Underneath run probing questions about how we know about the past and how that knowledge is shaped by the conditions of our knowing.
Indians and the West ...
Author: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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New Mexico Historical Review
Author: Lansing Bartlett Bloom
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Men of El Tejon
Author: Earle Crowe
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
History of the men on the Tejon Ranch (about 450 square miles) and its development. The ranch extended from near Bakersfield to the Tehachapi Mountains in Los Angeles County.
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
History of the men on the Tejon Ranch (about 450 square miles) and its development. The ranch extended from near Bakersfield to the Tehachapi Mountains in Los Angeles County.
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.