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To Die in Dinetah: The Dark Legacy of Kit Carson

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I am fascianted with the history of the Civil War in the west, and especially interested in Kit Carson. One of America's most fascinating individuals if you ask me. Kit Carson was also quite possibly the first rancher and cowboy in the new American West.

This book really does a good job telling a story, with accurate historical facts, while at the same time being a good novel where the characters come to life and fascinate the reader.

This is a great book that offers an accurate history that our school books did not. Read it!

Other books I liked that offer a great read of American West history and Kit Carson:

A Man Named Job and the Navahos


Blood and Thunder

Since I wrote a novel, A Man Named Job and The Navahos, about these same people during the same period of time as To Die in Dinetah, I am finding this novel by John A. Truett very exciting, informative, and very readable. Both Truett and I approach the Navajo tribulation of the Long Walk from different angles, it is as if Truett fills in the blanks about this time of horror. My novel gets inside the Navajo people while Truett not only gets inside the people but tells about the government's dealings that brought about the suffering of some very fine native people. Stupendous reading. Thanks