THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON

The life and adventures of Kit Carson the nestor of the rocky mountains from facts narrated by himself to DeWitt c Peters is one of the rare foundation documents of a genre. As the American frontier rolled west, those in the safe, civilised east longed for the stories of these frontier men, the Kit Carsons. The demand for stories about Indians bears the wilderness the lawlessness the romance of the frontier was an insatiable market. Thousands of books were published along the lines of Kit Carson all purporting to tell the “truth” of the frontier western adventure.