Overland with Kit Carson by George Douglas Brewerton

Overland with Kit Carson by George Douglas Brewerton

Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with Dispatches. Going with him was Lieutenant George Douglas Brewerton, who describes their journey over the Old Spanish Trail. It was a torturous route across deserts and mountains requiring the kind of expert survival skills that made Kit Carson famous. The scout, who was carrying the news that would begin the rush for gold, went as far as Taos, where he was reunited with his wife. From there Brewerton joined a wagon train that labored over the Santa Fe Trail to Independence, Missouri.  Overland with Kit Carson is a colorful and authentic account of encounters with Indians and white adventurers and of the hazards and hardships that accompanied anyone who undertook such a long journey in a sparsely populated country.

"Of prime importance to many general readers as well as to historians will be Brewerton’s intimate and concrete pictures of Kit Carson"—Southwest Review

The new introduction is by Marc Simmons, a professional historian, editor, translator, and the author of Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande (Bison Book, 1980).

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ISBN 13	9780803261136
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Titel	Overland with Kit Carson
Autor	George Douglas Brewerton
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1993-09-01
Seitenanzahl	301
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