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Writing Kit Carson : fallen heroes in a changing West / Susan Lee Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Susan Lee, author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--United States--Historiography.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Women authors, American--Biography.
- Women authors, American.
- Carson, Kit, 1809-1868--In literature.
- Carson, Kit.
- McClung, Quantrille D., 1890- Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy.
- McClung, Quantrille D.
- Blackwelder, Bernice. Great westerner.
- Blackwelder, Bernice.
- McClung, Quantrille D., 1890-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (529 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher 'Kit' Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the 'Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy', and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C. - and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of 'Great Westerner'.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908584-2-9
- 979-88-908584-3-6
- 1-4696-5883-6
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