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 Using historical documents, including Carson’s memoirs and contemporary accounts, Sides plunges into his biography and character.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

MR. VESTAL’S book will be the final step in securing for Kit Carson permanent claim to the renown he has always had as the ‘Hero of the Prairies,’ the most romantic and heroic figure of 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 ...

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 ...

Drawing from “Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West,” a nonfiction book about the 19th-century transformation of the West, students analyzed the complex consequences of Kit Carson ...

and the local library is full of juvenile books about the man who guided John C. Fremont’s expedition when it passed through the largely unknown Great Basin from 1843 to 1844. Kit Carson is ...