Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803261136)

Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with Dispatches. Going with him was Lieutenant George Douglas Brewerton, who describes their journey over the Old Spanish Trail. It was a torturous route across deserts and mountains requiring the kind of expert survival skills that made Kit Carson famous. The scout, who was carrying the news that would begin the rush for gold, went as far as Taos, where he was reunited with his wife. From there Brewerton joined a wagon train that labored over the Santa Fe Trail to Independence, Missouri. Overland with Kit Carson is a colorful and authentic account of encounters with Indians and white adventurers and of the hazards and hardships that accompanied anyone who undertook such a long journey in a sparsely populated country.

Author: George Douglas Brewerton
ISBN-10: 0803261136
ISBN-13: 9780803261136
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1993
Pages: 301
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.32w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 11/01/2001 pg. 62