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Writing Kit Carson fallen heroes in a changing West
- Title
- Writing Kit Carson [electronic resource] : fallen heroes in a changing West / Susan Lee Johnson.
- Author
- Johnson, Susan Lee.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; [Dallas, Tex.] : in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2020.
Details
- Description
- 1 online resource (516 pages, 38 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher 'Kit' Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo"--
- Uniform Title
- Writing Kit Carson (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Writing Kit Carson (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2020022323
- OCLC
- ssj0002405387
- Author
- Johnson, Susan Lee.
- Title
- Writing Kit Carson [electronic resource] : fallen heroes in a changing West / Susan Lee Johnson.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; [Dallas, Tex.] : in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2020.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
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