Volume 48, Number 17 · November 1, 2001
The Nestor of the Rockies
By Thomas Powers
Kit Carson and the Indians
by Tom Dunlay
University of Nebraska Press, 525 pp., $45.00
Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer?
edited by R.C. Gordon-McCutchan
University Press of Colorado, 105 pp., $24.95
Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48
by George Douglas Brewerton
University of Nebraska Press,301 pp. (out of print)
Kit Carson, who died in 1868, comes midway in the list of American Indian– fighting frontier heroes that begins with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett and ends with Buffalo Bill Cody. Cody was the genuine article in his youth but was soon seduced by the stage. His Wild West show with its Congress of Rough Riders of the World was hugely popular for a time, but he was not a man to balance income and outgo and he squandered or gave away several modest fortunes. Always strapped for funds and sometimes plain broke at the end of his life, Cody made one 'final tour' or 'last appearance' after another well into the twentieth century, before he died at last in 1917.
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