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Excellent! Superior! 535 pages incl. exhaustive index. The best book on the man Kit Carson. A penetrating analysis with many intelligent "asides" and commentary. For the casual reader, probably too many details. But considering the vile comments that are often expressed by revisionist historians about Kit Carson, especially in SW bars and coffee shops, Mr. Dunlay's book is without question: the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, plus ALL of the truth available when he wrote it in the late 1990s. However, one might read KIT CARSON AND HIS THREE WIVES by Marc Simmons for a more brief, but equally accurate, account of Mr. Carson. And then, BLOOD AND THUNDER by Hampton Sides is also superb, and covers the broader story of the entire Southwest, and how Kit Carson was so much a part of it.
