Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48
Language: English
Published by A Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA)
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Condition: Used - Very good
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A softcover reprint edition presenting the journal of U.S. Army Lt. George Douglas Brewerton, recounting his experiences riding east with Christopher "Kit" Carson in 1848 from Los Angeles. At the conclusion of the Mexican War, which added California to the Union, Carson carried official dispatches to Washington with the news of the victory. With two, two-page Stallo Vinton maps showing routes taken across the country, as well as several drawings by the author. Includes an introduction by Marc Simmons. --- In blue and gold wraps with Brewerton's color painting to front cover. --- A well-preserved, tightly-bound and unmarked copy, though with small crease to cover corner, speck of soiling to title page and slight sunning to spine.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxiii, 301 pages.
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- Title
- Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48
- Author
- BREWERTON, George Douglas
- Publisher
- A Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0803261136
- ISBN 13
- 9780803261136
- Seller catalogs
- >>History of Colorado & the Old West, >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure
Overland with Kit Carson is a colorful and authentic account of encounters with Indians and white adventurers and of the hazards and hardships that accompanied anyone who undertook such a long journey in a sparsely populated country.
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