Author: BREWERTON, GEORGE DOUGLAS
Title: Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48
Description: Lincoln: A Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Softcover. ISBN: 0803261136. A softcover reprint edition presenting the journal of U.S. Army Lt. George Douglas Brewerton, recounting his experiences riding east with Christopher "Kit" Carson in 1848 from Los Angeles. At the conclusion of the Mexican War, which added California to the Union, Carson carried official dispatches to Washington with the news of the victory. With two, two-page Stallo Vinton maps showing routes taken across the country, as well as several drawings by the author. Includes an introduction by Marc Simmons. --- In blue and gold wraps with Brewerton's color painting to front cover. --- A well-preserved, tightly-bound and unmarked copy, though with small crease to cover corner, speck of soiling to title page and slight sunning to spine.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxiii, 301 pages. Very Good .

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