For your consideration is this original, 1889 first edition copy of "The Life of Kit Carson; Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent, and Colonel U.S.A." by Edward S. Ellis. The book was published by The New York Publishing Company and copyrighted by The American News Company in 1889.
American frontiersman, trapper, soldier, and Indian agent who made an important contribution to the westward expansion of the United States. His career as an Indian fighter earned him both folk hero status through its aggrandizement in the dime novels of his day and condemnation from some later revisionist historians as an agent of the displacement and decimation of the native peoples of the West.
This book is in very good condition and has a tight binding and hinges. This book measures 7.5"H x 5.25"W x 1.25D".