A softcover revised edition of volume I of Edwin L. Sabin's biography of Kit Carson (1809-1868), the American adventurer, trapper and scout. The author details various aspects of Carson's life, starting at age fifteen when he ran away from home in Missouri to join a Santa Fe-bound caravan, to about 1853. With 20 full-page drawings by Howard Simon. The author completed the biography with his volume II. --- In wraps with detail from Maynard Dixon's color painting "Mountain Man, Oregon Trail" to front panel. --- A bright, tightly-bound, newish copy though with slight sunning to a strip of back panel near the spine.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiv, (6), 488 pages
Title: Kit Carson Days 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume I (Revised Edition)
ISBN Number: 0803292376
ISBN-13: 9780803292376
Location Published: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press: 1995
Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Categories: Other
Stock No.: 87160
