KIT CARSON DAYS (1809-1868) Sabin, Edwin L. California

"Edwin L. Sabin, a prolific historian of the Southwest, wrote the first documented biography of the famed New Mexican mountain man, trapper, teamster, scout, Indian fighter, and agent. Many earlier dime-novel-style biographies had been written about this Western icon but none are comparable in scholarship to this detailed study. Sabin, for his day, made a supreme effort in assembling a welter of primary source material and hammering it into a cogent narrative. Through this majestic work, the panorama of the American West unfolds from Carson's days as a mountain man, to his close involvement with John C. Fremont and the conquest of California, to settling the 'Indian Problem' in the Southwest" (Gary F. Kurutz, The Zamorano 80 Collection of Daniel G.Volkmann Jr.). Octavo: xv, [1], 669, [1, blank] pp. with more than 100 half-tones. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling. Some faint staining and smudging; else very good. The Zamorano Eighty 67.