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SABIN, EDWIN L. - Kit Carson Days 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume I (Revised Edition)

Title: Kit Carson Days 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume I (Revised Edition)
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Softcover. ISBN: 0803292376. 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. Near Fine .

Keywords: 0803292376

Price: US$ 14.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87160