Kit Carson's Books

The legendary nineteenth-century figure relates his experiences as a scout, soldier, trapper, Indian fighter, explorer, and government agent.

In 1826 17-year-old Christopher "Kit" Carson ran away from his job as apprentice to a saddler in Franklin, Mo., and joined a merchant caravan bound for Santa Fe. In the decades that followed, Carson gained renown as a trapper, hunter, guide, rancher, army courier, Indian agent, and military officer.

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.

The legendary nineteenth-century figure relates his experiences as a scout, soldier, trapper, Indian fighter, explorer, and government agent.

Christian readers of the Hebrew Bible are often faced with a troubling tension. On the one hand, they are convinced that this ancient text is relevant today, yet on the other, they remain perplexed at how this can be so, particularly when parts of it appear to condone violence. Barker’s volume seeks to address this tension in two parts: (1) by defending a particular form of theological interpretation and (2) by applying this interpretive method to the imprecatory psalms. Barker suggests that the goal of theological interpretation is to discover God’s voice in the text. While he recognizes that this goal could encourage a subjective methodology, Barker offers a hermeneutic that clearly locates God’s voice in the text of Scripture. Utilizing the resources of speech act theory, Barker notes that texts convey meaning at a number of literary levels and that God’s appropriation of speech acts at these levels is not necessarily uniform for each genre. He also discusses how the Christian canon alters the context of these ancient speech acts, both reshaping and enabling their continued function as divine discourse. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of this hermeneutic, Barker offers theological interpretations of Psalms 69 and 137. He demonstrates how christological fulfilment and the call to forgive one’s enemies are determinative for a theological interpretation of these troubling psalms, concluding that they continue to form an essential part of God’s voice that must not be ignored.

There are more girls, more gunfights, and more action than a saloon on a Saturday night in this giant special edition of Buckskin. Lee Morgan head for Wyoming to find a kidnapped girl and ends up with a bevvy of bank-robbing beauties on his hands!

Two complete westerns in one double edition. Readers get twice the guns and twice the gals for one low price!

From Simon & Schuster, America's Favorite Backyard Wildlife is Kit and George Harrison's intimate look at the fascinating lives of your best-loved backyard neighbors. This illustrated volume offers backyard wildlife enthusiasts information on gray squirrels, tiger swallowtail butterflies, box turtles, eastern chipmunks, American toads, cottontail rabbits, opossums, raccoons, striped skunks, woodchucks, and songbirds.

The adventures of Buckskin Frank Leslie, a cowboy whose talent with a gun is surpassed only by his way with the ladies.

The adventures of Buckskin Frank Leslie, a cowboy whose talent with a gun is only surpassed by his way with the ladies.

Book's by Kit Carson

Kit Carson's Autobiography

Kit Carson's Autobiography

Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

Overland with Kit Carson

Overland with Kit Carson

Kit Carson's Autobiography

Kit Carson's Autobiography

Overland with Kit Carson

Overland with Kit Carson

Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

Imprecation as Divine Discourse

Imprecation as Divine Discourse

Bounty Hunter's Moon

Bounty Hunter's Moon

Gold Town Gal/Morgan's Squaw

Gold Town Gal/Morgan's Squaw

AMERICA'S FAVORITE BACKYARD WILDLIFE

AMERICA'S FAVORITE BACKYARD WILDLIFE

Silver City Carbine

Silver City Carbine

Gold Town Gal

Gold Town Gal

Winchester Valley - Gunsmoke Gorge

Winchester Valley - Gunsmoke Gorge

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