
Kit Carson
The Life of an American Border Man (The Oklahoma Western Biographies, Book 27)
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Narrado por:
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Douglas R. Pratt
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David Remley
Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between prevailing notions about this quintessential Western figure. Whereas the dime novelists exploited Carson's popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was dependable, ethical, and - for his day - relatively open-minded. Sifting through the extensive scholarship, the author illuminates the key dimensions of Carson's life, including his often neglected Scots-Irish heritage. His people's dire poverty and restlessness, their clannish rural life and sternly Protestant character, committed Carson, like his Scots-Irish ancestors, to loyalty and duty and to following his leader into battle without question.
Remley also places Carson in the context of his times by exploring his controversial relations with American Indians. Although despised for the merciless warfare he led on General James H. Carleton's behalf against the Navajos, Carson lived amicably among many Indian people, including the Utes, whom he served as US government agent. Happily married to Waa-Nibe, an Arapaho woman, until her death, he formed a lasting friendship with their daughter, Adaline.
Remley sees Carson as a complicated man struggling to master life on America's borders, those highly unstable areas where people of different races, cultures, and languages met, mixed, and fought, sometimes against each other, sometimes together, for the possession of home, hunting rights, and honor.
The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
New Mexico Book Awards, Best Biography.
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kit carson
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Great listen, very informative.
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Kit Carson.
The Man behind the Myth
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entertaining and balanced
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The author starts out by saying they want the reader to open their mind to another way of seeing these people aside from their own biases and then proceeds to give their bias each time a moment of atrocity is revealed.
The narrator constantly talks down to the reader like we’re all children for thinking anything other than what he’s trying to inflect.
Just give us the facts and allow us to make up our own minds. Instead we’re blatantly told not to think certain things but “allow him to explain”.
The author takes cheap shots at Hampton Sides “Blood and Thunder” probably because it’s a masterpiece and this book/ author are subpar revisionists.
Sometimes people in history we think were great weren’t so great. Revisionists have been plying their trade long before we got here.
The bias in this book makes it a hard pass for me recommending it to any lover of nonfiction.
Narrator’s inflection needs work. Try another line of work maybe
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