Title: Soldier in buckskin
Subtitle: a western story
Description: The life of Christopher "Kit" Carson, the 19th Century folk hero. The novel follows his exploits as a hunter and guide, his exploration of Oregon and California, and his service in the Mexican War and the Civil War from which he emerged a brigadier general. Also described is his marriage to an Indian princess, and after her death to an aristocratic Spanish beauty.
Subjects: Fiction, Pioneers, Soldiers, Scouting (Reconnaissance), Scouts and scouting, Large type books, West (u.s.), fiction, Fiction, westerns
People: Kit Carson (1809-1868)