Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of...
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Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West by Johnson, Susan Lee

Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

$576.44

Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

$576.44
Author: Susan Lee Johnson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In 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 who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer on stage and radio, a CIA employee, and the author of Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson. In the 1970s, as once-celebrated figures like Carson were falling headlong from grace, these two amateur historians kept weaving stories of western white men, including those who married American Indian and Spanish Mexican women, just as Carson had wed Singing Grass, Making Out Road, and Josefa Jaramillo.

Johnson's multilayered biography reveals the nature of relationships between women historians and male historical subjects and between history buffs and professional historians. It explores the practice of history in the context of everyday life, the seductions of gender in the context of racialized power, and the strange contours of twentieth-century relationships predicated on nineteenth-century pasts. On the surface, it tells a story of lives tangled across generation and geography. Underneath run probing questions about how we know about the past and how that knowledge is shaped by the conditions of our knowing.



Author: Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/18/2020
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.70w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781469658834


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/16/2020 pg. 1

About the Author
Johnson, Susan Lee: - Susan Lee Johnson is the Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

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