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Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man Volume 27

Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man Volume 27

Remley, David

Paperback

Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies, Book 27

Adventurers & Explorers19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0806142731
ISBN13: 9780806142739
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Jan 15 2012
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: New Mexico Book Awards
History has portrayed Christopher Kit Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding Carson to be less than a mythical hero, but more than a simpleminded rascal with a rifle.

Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between prevailing notions about this quintessential western figure. Whereas the dime novelists exploited Carson's popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was dependable, ethical, and--for his day--relatively open-minded. Sifting through the extensive scholarship about Kit, the author illuminates the key dimensions of Carson's life, including his often neglected Scots-Irish heritage. His people's dire poverty and restlessness, their clannish rural life and sternly Protestant character, committed Carson, like his Scots-Irish ancestors, to loyalty and duty and to following his leader into battle without question.

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