Life and Adventures of Kit Carson

He was already a legend in his own lifetime. By the time of his death in 1868, dime novels had turned Kit Carson into a frontiersman of mythic proportions. But this is the biography he authorized, much of it told in his own voice, and it reveals the man behind the myth. From his childhood in Kentucky to his years as a mountain man, trapper, and guide for the U.S. Army, Carson lived at the heart of America's westward expansion. The book captures a vanishing world, the last of the mountain men, the closing of the frontier, and the brutal realities of survival in a land that shaped and destroyed men in equal measure. For readers seeking authentic voices from America's past, this is the frontier's final chapter, uncensored and in its own words.