Remarkably, this particular book was Charles Averill’s Kit Carson: Prince of the Gold Hunters, a pulpy damsel-in-distress adventure in which Kit rescues a young woman who had been kidnapped by Indians. As Carson grieves over her tattered and bruised corpse, his men find a book she had been reading, a so-called Blood and Thunder, one of the dime novels of the era detailing the exaggerated exploits of Western heroes like Carson. They spring to action, hoping to rescue the young woman, but she is tragically killed in the ensuing melee. There is a story told in Hampton Sides’ remarkable book, Blood and Thunder, where Kit Carson, the famous mountain man explorer, and trapper, sets out to rescue a young woman who has been kidnapped by a raiding party of Jicarillo Apaches.Ĭarson tracks the raiding party’s trail for days before he and his men finally reach the Apache encampment. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
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