Which made Kit Carson irresistible to author Hampton Sides, who wrote the Carson biography, "Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West." "It's really a book about the conquest of the ...

The life of Kit Carson becomes the dramatic center of the book. Using historical documents, including Carson’s memoirs and contemporary accounts, Sides plunges into his biography and character.

There he saw for the first time a book on the life of Kit Carson. “Burn the ... thing,” was his response. In 1853, he and a partner herded thousands of sheep through Nevada and across the ...

He asks host Tukufu Zuberi to find out if this book really did once sit on the bookshelf in frontiersman Kit Carson’s home. This lesson is written for grades 9-12, but can be adapted for grades 6-8.

There he saw for the first time a book on the life of Kit Carson. “Burn the ...thing,” was his response. In 1853, he and a partner herded thousands of sheep through Nevada and across the ...

He was the sort of 19th century frontier hellcat to whom they erect monuments, and it stands to reason he’d pop up — sort of — in the first edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican way back on ...

TAOS, N.M. — Sitting in the spare, chilly front room of the house that Kit Carson ... to the Pacific. Carson and the other mountain men, Sides writes at the beginning of the book, “whispered ...

A recent federal report outlines a plan for “removal and discard” of what remains of a monument in Santa Fe to controversial frontiersman Christopher “Kit” Carson that was toppled in the ...

Katherine Sanders, a seventh-grade teacher at Kit Carson International Academy, left her job after the district determined that her conduct was severe enough to call for her dismissal. The ...