Kit Carson Revisits Western Frontier in New Fiction, COUNTING COUP

The story of the way west in the early nineteenth century was often a tale of danger, death and unspeakable suffering. The early trappers and mountain men forged the trails westward for the pioneers that followed and became part of the legend of the American West. Of this hardy breed of early venturers one name stands out above the rest: Kit Carson. In Counting Coup, The Odyssey Of Captain Tom Adams, Bob Stockton retraces the life and legend of Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson via the adventures of Tom Adams and comes up with outstanding fiction of the historical old west.

Many stories of Carson's bravery, often wildly exaggerated, filled eastern bookshelves of the day. How much of what was written about him was true and how much was fantasy? Cavalry officer Captain Tom Adams vowed to seek the truth behind the legend and along the way faced near shipwrecks, attempted assassinations, Indian massacres, murder, and torture in an odyssey that he never believed could have been possible.

Carson became an aide to the "Pathfinder," John C. Fremont, whose records of their expeditions through California, Oregon and the Great Basin area became the basis for his national fame. The truth in brutal frontier life is something that Bob Stockton, a member of the Military Writers of America, refuses to water down. He is himself the descendant of Commodore "Fighting Bob" Stockton, who figured prominently in claiming California for the United States. Counting Coup is a powerful, compelling novel that makes readers see how Americans in the western frontier lived the nightmare of violence to build the Founding Fathers' dream of a new order on the continent.

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About the Author
Bob Stockton was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Leaving school in his junior year, Bob began a Navy career in 1957. Following Navy retirement in 1977, Bob has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees and worked as a shipyard welder's helper, adjunct graduate instructor, epidemiologist, pharmaceutical trainer, and radio host. An avid motorcyclist, Bob currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida in close proximity to his three children, three grandchildren, and a large American bulldog named Bowser.

Counting Coup* by Bob Stockton
The Odyssey Of Captain Tom Adams
Publication Date: March 15, 2013
Trade Paperback; $15.99; 208 pages; 978-1-4836-0693-4
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