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Book SynopsisIn 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, and Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, and CIA employee.
Trade ReviewFor readers who wish to know more about how history is written, its influencers, their writings, and how figures such as Carson fall from grace. An excellent addition for women's studies collections."—
Library Journal"In this sometimes ruminative, sometimes gripping volume, Johnson shows how women's history does not simply add to, but transforms our broader understanding of history. . . . [
Writing Kit Carson is] a novel work of scholarship and lyrical narrative, enriched and enlivened with memoir, loaded with impressive research, careful citation, historiography, and bibliography."—
Reviews in American History"A capacious and unruly book. It sweeps across more than a century. As it spins its yarn across lives and decades, it moves backward and forward in time. In glorious prose it defies the borders between author and subject, between past and present, and lures the reader into caring about the tangled lives of two women . . . staking their own claim to significance, in part, by their work on Kit Carson. . . . Richly complex."—
Missouri Historical Review
