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Title: Kit Carson's Autobiography by Kit Carson, Milo Milton Quaife ISBN: 0-8032-5031-2 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: December, 1966 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Straightforward autobiography
Comment: Kit Carson was everywhere and did just about everything. I must agree with other reviewers and Milo Milton Quaife in his introduction, that because of Carson's nature, the book seems somewhat curtailed of descriptive events. What may have taken a few months to happen, Kit says it all in a paragraph. That aside, he came out west at the age of sixteen to become a mountain man. As time went by he was involved with trapping adventures, expeditions with Fremont, the Mexican War and as an Indian agent. Maybe it was a sign of the times, but Carson certainly does not hesitate to boast about how many Indians he killed during his day to day adventures. This may have been brought about by his upbringing as a young child. The settlers in his part of Missouri where he was living at the time had to "fort" themselves against the activities of hostile Indians. This may have carried on into adulthood. Nevertheless, this was a good book on an extraordinary and remarkable man of the early American west.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, But Too Short!
Comment: Kit Carson was a man of few words in life and in his own autobiography. It is unfortunate that such a dynamic individual didn't write down more! Quaife does a terrific job with the notes. Explaining everything that Carson failed to include. This is a common problem as, for example, Kit Carson will say something to the effect: Fought indians today, and Quaife will fill in all of the details about what tribe, how many, who was killed or wounded in both parties, etc. I am fascinated by how much detail is known of Carson's time. Very readable, my only complaint was that it was too short! The editor has included a nicely laid out index. I found the book well worth the purchase price! BTW, for those of you looking for information on William F. Drannon, he is not mentioned anywhere in Carson's autobiography.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kit explains it all!
Comment: Disclaimer: Kit Carson is my first cousin, five times removed! And that's why I read this book.
It took a while to sink in, but the compelling feature about Kit's autobiography is the editing. There are extensive footnotes throughout that put Kit's text in historical perspective, point out errors in his memory, and round out the story.
He describes his 16-year life as a Mountain Man in almost monosyllabic terms. In other words, he compresses a whole year into a single paragraph. A short paragraph!
But it gets better when he has something to say about his scouting and Indian relations roles.
Why does it explain it all? Because I have this wanderlust locked up inside me, and I've always wondered where it came from!
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Title: Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West by Dale Lowell Morgan ISBN: 0803251386 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: December, 1964 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Mountain Men by George Laylock ISBN: 1558214542 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Memoirs of My Life: Including Three Journeys of Western Exploration During the Years 1842, 1843-1844, 1845-1847 by John Charles Fremont ISBN: 0815411642 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Jim Bridger, Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal ISBN: 0803257201 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris, David Sievert Lavender ISBN: 0803272642 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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