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Blood Rendezvous (Kit Carson)

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Decent book. It's what you would expect out of a pulp book. Easy to get through, okay story, cookie-cutter characters. Nothing explosive, thought provoking, or out of the ordinary imaginative. It's what it is.

Kit and his fellow trapper friends are on their way to the annual summer rendezvous, where mountain men throughout the frontier trade items and recieve money for the many animal pelts they have collected throughout the past year. Blackfoot Indians have eyes for this large bounty of animal pelts and decide to take them. They do, .... Go git 'em, Kit!

This is the first book I've read from Doug Hawkins and the Kit Carson series. I'd have to read one or two more to get a good feel of him, but judging from this book, the Kit Carson series appears ho-hum. Kit Carson, the way Hawkins writes his character, doesn't stand out. The most interesting character in this book was a loner mountain man named Petey. He's a slightly touched, contentious trapper whose best friend is a grizzly bear. He has spent so much time alone, trapping and fending for himself, people are an aggravation to him. I liked what Hawkins did with his character.

In any case, it's a quick read. You can pick the book up cheap and spend a day lost in a light adventure. Better than spending the day lost in TV's fast food fare.