Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes (Bison Book S)

Guild, Thelma S.; Carter, Harvey L.

ISBN 10: 0803270275 / ISBN 13: 9780803270275

Published by Bison Books, Lincoln and London, 1988

About this Item

First PB Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. NearFine. Top rear corner bent, intruding approx. last 50 pages of books, else Fine and unmarked. xii, 367pp inc. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in reproductions. 383 p.

Seller Inventory # 029229

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes (Bison Book S)
• Publisher: Bison Books, Lincoln and London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803270275
• ISBN 13: 9780803270275
• Binding: Trade Paper
• Edition: First PB Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana
  • Non-Fiction
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

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 Carefully separating myth from fact, the authors draw on a wide variety of sources, published and unpublished, including private letters.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.

From the Back Cover

Carefully separating myth from fact, the authors draw on a wide variety of sources, published and unpublished, including private letters.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.