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Author Johnson, Susan Lee, author.

Title Writing Kit Carson : fallen heroes in a changing West / Susan Lee Johnson
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; [Dallas, Tex.] : in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (516 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Prologue -- Grandmother's eyes -- In which we meet -- Westerner sparks story, falls from grace -- Historian comes clean, stays dirty -- Disorder misrules -- The lay of the land -- Part I. Crafting Kit Carson, 1950s-1960s -- The West is a happy vector -- Some guys on some horses -- Begotten, and made -- Souls lost in purgatory -- Westerns, westerners, and western historians -- Cold war, color line, and cul-de-sac -- At home with the rifleman -- Part II. Crafting Kit Carson, 1960s-1970s -- Down on Wounded Knee -- Traffics in men -- Founding families -- Plentitude of patriarchs -- Bankrupt for heroes -- Making it with the professionals -- Invasion of the malcontents -- Old maid and housewife -- When the empire struck back -- Part III. Creating craftswomen, 1890s-1940s -- The past is another place -- Lives and archives -- Inheriting the Old West -- New woman in a New West -- Pageant of melody, straw in the wind -- A place that's known to god alone -- Epilogue -- Where our fathers died -- In which we part -- Housewife -- Old maid -- Westerner
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: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Carson, Kit, 1809-1868.
Blackwelder, Bernice.
McClung, Quantrille D., 1890-
Blackwelder, Bernice Great westerner.
McClung, Quantrille D., 1890- Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy.
Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 -- In literature
SUBJECT Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 fast
Subject Women authors, American -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Frontier and pioneer life -- Historiography
Women authors, American
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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