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Illus. covers of Munro's Ten Cent Novels, 185-: Kit Carson, the Scout [on horse] – Historic Print

Illus. covers of Munro's Ten Cent Novels, 185-: Kit Carson, the Scout [on horse], [185-] — antique engraving
Illus. covers of Munro's Ten Cent Novels, 185-: Kit Carson, the Scout [on horse], [185-]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Illus. covers of Munro's Ten Cent Novels, 185-: Kit Carson, the Scout [on horse], preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Illus. covers of Munro's Ten Cent Novels, 185-: Kit Carson, the Scout [on horse]

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Here a mounted rider takes center stage, a figure drawn for the cover of a cheap paperback in the Munro's Ten Cent Novels series. The cover is named for Kit Carson, the scout Christopher "Kit" Carson (1809-1868), whose real exploits across the West were soon folded into popular legend. Dime novels like these were sold cheaply to working-class readers and built a wide market for frontier adventure stories. The catalog date, 185-, is approximate, so the cover likely dates from the 1850s or early 1860s. Wood engraving was the standard method for such cover art, and the image shows how publishers used a single dramatic figure to sell the story.

Created / published[185-]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
Subjects#230. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - Carson, Christopher, 1809-1868. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dime novels; Ind. of NA--Women; BI; RBD; Books...; Shelf. C-, Christopher, 1809-1868. X C-, Kit, 1809-1868.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan999 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142035

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