Kit Carson Days 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume I (Revised Edition)
by SABIN, Edwin L
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- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0803292376
- ISBN 13
- 9780803292376
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About This Item
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Near Fine. 1995. Softcover. 0803292376 . A softcover revised edition of volume I of Edwin L. Sabin's biography of Kit Carson (1809-1868), the American adventurer, trapper and scout. The author details various aspects of Carson's life, starting at age fifteen when he ran away from home in Missouri to join a Santa Fe-bound caravan, to about 1853. With 20 full-page drawings by Howard Simon. The author completed the biography with his volume II. --- In wraps with detail from Maynard Dixon's color painting "Mountain Man, Oregon Trail" to front panel. --- A bright, tightly-bound, newish copy though with slight sunning to a strip of back panel near the spine.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiv, (6), 488 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87160
- Title
- Kit Carson Days 1809-1868: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume I (Revised Edition)
- Author
- SABIN, Edwin L
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803292376
- ISBN 13
- 9780803292376
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- 0803292376
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