Publisher's Synopsis
Kit Carson is one of the most widely revered and famous of America's frontier heroes. Celebrated as a mountain man, Indian fighter, trailblazer, and scout, Carson's legacy in the history of the American West has grown to almost mythic proportions. Yet over the past twenty-five years his legacy has been the subject of a great deal of debate, often acrimonious, among western historians, many charging that Carson was a racist who played a leading role in the forced removal of the Navajo from their traditional homelands in the Southwest. Carson's true actions and legacy are the subject of Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer? This volume brings together a distinguished group of contributors who explore the latest historical research on Carson in an attempt to shed further light on his life.
