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MP3 Audio CD. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson CHAPTER I. Carson's Birthplace—His Emigration to Missouri—Early Prospects—Is an Apprentice—Stories of the Rocky Mountains—He Enlists to go there—Adventures on the Prairies—Broaders is Wounded—Carson's Nerve put to the Test—Rude Amputation—Safe Arrival at Santa Fé—Goes to Taos and learns the Spanish Language—Early Vicissitudes—Disappointment and Attempt to return to Missouri—Is employed as an Interpreter, Teamster, etc. It is now a well-established fact, that no State in the American Union has given birth to so many distinguished pioneers and explorers of its boundless Territories, as the commonwealth of Kentucky. An Author, whose task is to tell of a Hero, his bravery, endurance, privations, integrity, self-denial and deeds of daring, carries the morale with which to gain at once for these characteristics the assent of the reader, by the simple assertion,… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson CHAPTER I. Carson's Birthplace—His Emigration to Missouri—Early Prospects—Is an Apprentice—Stories of the Rocky Mountains—He Enlists to go there—Adventures on the Prairies—Broaders is Wounded—Carson's Nerve put to the Test—Rude Amputation—Safe Arrival at Santa Fé—Goes to Taos and learns the Spanish Language—Early Vicissitudes—Disappointment and Attempt to return to Missouri—Is employed as an Interpreter, Teamster, etc. It is now a well-established fact, that no State in the American Union has given birth to so many distinguished pioneers and explorers of its boundless Territories, as the commonwealth of Kentucky. An Author, whose task is to tell of a Hero, his bravery, endurance, privations, integrity, self-denial and deeds of daring, carries the morale with which to gain at once for these characteristics the assent of the reader, by the simple assertion,… Read More

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, etc..

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hartford: Dustin, Gilman & Co, 1873. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated in black and white. 604 pages. Thick 8vo, original green decorative cloth. Hartford: Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1873. Ex-library copy with plates, stamps and inked info on spine; some edgewear, scattered foxing. Overall a very good attractive copy.<br/> <br/>

green with gold and black decoration and print . Bumped corners, edgewear, hingecrack at front binding, although strong binding througout. No marks or writing throughout. Very lightly tanned pages. See photos. Kit Carson, Mountain Men

Boston, 1883. x,[2],[19]-567pp. Illus. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Inner front hinge cracking, bookplate on front pastedown, else good. A much later edition, after the first of 1858 and the expanded edition of 1873, of Peters' biography of Kit Carson. This is repackaged under a different title but is the same as the 1873 version. Basic text of the Carson myth. HOWES P256 (ref)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Used:Good.

New.

beautiful green cloth cover with gold lettering and black. edgewear. Interior some foxing, protective sheet at front cover. Shaken at front cover.

N.Y.: W. R. C. Clark & Co., 1859. Book. Good +. Hardcover. 534 pages, marbled page edges, illustrations, original brown cloth with gilt designs and lettering, outer front upper hinges starting, fading to spine, edge wear. Interior is very good. Good reading or research copy. This was one of the nicer publishers bindings. Peters spent some time in New Mexico, where he met Kit Carson and interviewed him for this book. The official biography. Kit, when it was read it him, complained that Peters laid it on a leetle too thick Graff 3260, Howes P256, Rader 2649, Wagner-Camp 306:1..

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British Library, Historical Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1881. Hardcover. Near Fine. BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION WITH BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT GILT PICTORIAL COVER AND SPINE WITH TITLE TO BOTH. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, DECORATIVE END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS, INSIDE HINGES REINFORCED WITH JAPANESE TISSUE, NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS AND LITTLE TO NO FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, 567 PAGES, 9"x7". 140 YEARS OLD. A VERY NICE EXAMPLE..