'Dear Old Kit.' The Historical Christopher Carson.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small quarto. 10 1/4 x 7 inches. xix, 250pp. Numerous illustrations (many from historical photographs), 5 maps; appendices, index. Original tan cloth. A very fine copy with dust jacket. Jacket slightly soiled, and top rear edge of jacket crunched and wrinkled. "One of the most careful studies ever done on Kit Carson, with a scrupulously annotated edition of the Carson memoirs" (Rittenhouse). The appendices include a chronology of Carson's life, a contemporary account of Carson that originally appeared in the Washington Union, and commentary on the numerous illustrations. [Rittenhouse: 105]. .