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"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 G...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Susan Lee (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : [Dallas, Tex.] : The University of North Carolina Press ; in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2020.
Colección:North Carolina scholarship online.
Temas:
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.
Women authors, American > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > Historiography.
Écrivaines américaines > Biographies.
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.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B

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