TY - JOUR
AU - Smith, Wilson
AB - 208 Reviews of Books serene mind of a systematizer through which the events of the growing slavery crisis are way-the mind, that is, of Beecher who, while reject­ refracted in a peculiar ing the specific terms of his father's compromise, nevertheless carried his spirit and his passion into an age when this earlier style of cosmic politics was going out of vogue. Brown University JOHN L. THOMAS 'DEAR OLD KIT': THE HISTORICAL CHRISTOPHER CARSON. With a new edition of the Carson Memoirs. By Harvey Lewis Carter. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1968. Pp, xix, 25 • $5.95.) FORTY years ago Harvey L. Carter, Campbell Professor of American History at Colorado College, wrote his first paper on "Dear old Kit" Carson, as Jessie Benton Fremont called him, "a nice guy who finished first." To commemorate the centennial of Kit's death, Carter prepared a biographical article on his hero for Volume VI (1968) of LeRoy R. Hafen's Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West; he now follows that ex­ cellent sketch with a thoroughly documented study of Carson's memoirs, life and legend. Carter's laudatory remarks on Carson's character support his primary thesis that "fortune has seldom smiled upon 
TI - The University of Illinois, 1867–1894: An Intellectual and Cultural History. By Winton U. Solberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1968. Pp. x, 494. $12.50.), Better the Dream. Saint Louis: University & Community, 1818–1968. By William B. Faherty, S.J. [Sesquicentennial Edition.] ([St. Louis:] St. Louis University. 1968. Pp. xv, 445. $10.00.) and Saint Louis University: 150 Years. By Rita G. Adams et al. ([St. Louis: St. Louis University. 1968.] Pp. 176. $2.95.)
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/75.1.208-a
DA - 1969-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-university-of-illinois-1867-1894-an-intellectual-and-cultural-qHzmZWWsCm
SP - 208
EP - 210
VL - 75
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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