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<div align="center"><font size="4"><b>The Howard R. Lamar Center at
Yale University<br>
Presents Author Hampton Sides<br>
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<div align="center"><b><font color="#ff0000" size="6">Kit Carson:
National Hero.<br>
Genocidal Maniac. (Pick one)<br>
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<div align="center"><font size="5">Date and Time: Thursday, November
15 at 5:30 pm<br>
Place: 101 Linsly-Chittenden Hall (61 High Street)<br>
Free and open to the public<br>
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<font size="5">Hampton Sides brings the history of the American
conquest of the West to
life. At the center of his <br>
book stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson--the legendary trapper,
scout, and soldier who <br>
embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American
experience in the West. <br>
Carson’s exploits made him a household name when they were written up
in
pulp novels known as <br>
blood-and-thunders"; yet Carson himself, after reading a biography
based on memoirs he had dictated, <br>
is said to have remarked that the author "had laid it on a leetle
too thick." As one reviewer of the book<br>
has noted, "Carson was the consummate
frontiersman....Illiterate but fluent in five Indian languages<br>
as well as Spanish, he'd had two Native American wives before
marrying into an old Spanish family <br>
from Taos. Carson, who seems often to have been at the right place at
the
right (or wrong) time, <br>
had a deep understanding of the complex clash of cultures taking
place.... In Sides's depiction,<br>
Carson was a humble loner who became an unflinching killer when
circumstances or <br>
superiors demanded it."<br>
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Author Hampton Sides will give a talk drawn from his national
bestseller,<i> Blood and Thunder: An Epic<br>
of the American West</i> (Doubleday), now out in paperback. A
native of Memphis, Sides is editor-at-large<br>
for<i> Outside</i> magazine and the author of<i> Ghost Soldiers</i>
(Doubleday), which was the basis for the<br>
2005 Miramax film,<i> The Great Raid</i>.<i> Ghost Soldiers</i> won
the 2002 PEN USA award for non-fiction and <br>
the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble, and his magazine work
has been twice nominated for<br>
National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Sides is also the
author of<i> Americana</i> (Anchor) and<br>
<i> Stomping Grounds</i> (William Morrow). He graduated from Yale in
1984, where he studied narrative <br>
non-fiction under John Hersey and earned a B.A. in American history. He
lives in New Mexico with<br>
his wife, Anne, and their three sons.<br>
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For more information, please call 203-432-2328 or email
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lamar.center@yale.edu">lamar.center@yale.edu</a>.<br>
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