A Right Fine Life : Kit Carson on the Santa Fe Trail / Andrew Glass
Language: English
Published by New York : Holiday House [C. 1997], 1997
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 1 pages; Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. Ill. ; map on endpapers. 29 cm. Subjects: Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 --Juvenile fiction. West (U. S. ) --Fiction 1 Kg.
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- Title
- A Right Fine Life : Kit Carson on the Santa Fe Trail / Andrew Glass
- Author
- Glass, Andrew (1949-)
- Publisher
- New York : Holiday House [C. 1997]
- Publication year
- 1997
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0823413268
- ISBN 13
- 9780823413263
- Illustrator
- Glass, Andrew
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
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Reviews
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Gr. 3^-5, somewhat younger for reading aloud. Noting that the "facts" reported in many books about Kit Carson are based on earlier legendary accounts, Glass spins a tall tale of his own. In this entertaining picture book for older readers, Kit Carson tells of running away as a 16-year-old to join a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. While on the trail, he keeps his head when a prairie fire causes a buffalo stampede, he amputates a man's arm to save his life, and he befriends an Indian girl who helps rid him of fleas and gives him a Cheyenne name meaning Little Chief. The full-page and double-page oil paintings, heavily textured, are as vivid and colorful as the tale. Long notes about the Santa Fe Trail as well as Carson himself add to the usefulness of this action-packed book, which will supplement more traditional histories of the period. Carolyn Phelan
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