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 Using historical documents, including Carson’s memoirs and contemporary accounts, Sides plunges into his biography and character.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As they buried her, someone in Carson's party found a book amidst her personal effects, a Dime Novel titled "Kit Carson: Prince of the Gold Hunters." Passages were read to the scout that told of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kit Carson, as he was better known ... and sent him on his way to fame in the “blood and thunder” adventure books of the era. Born in 1809 in Kentucky, Carson headed west at age 16 and ...