Kit Carson : a pattern for heroes /
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| Author / Creator: | Guild, Thelma S., 1911- |
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| Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1984. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 367 pages) : maps, portraits |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11110685 |
| Summary: | 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 Carefully separating myth from fact, the authors draw on a wide variety of sources, published and unpublished, including private letters.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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 367 pages) : maps, portraits |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585310564 9780585310565 0803221185 9780803221185 0803270275 9780803270275 |