author
De Witt C. (De Witt Clinton) Peters
d. 1876
Best remembered for shaping one of the classic early books about Kit Carson, this 19th-century U.S. Army surgeon turned frontier experience into lively Western biography. His work helped popularize Carson’s legend for generations of readers.
1 Audiobook
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself
by De Witt C. (De Witt Clinton) Peters
About the author
De Witt Clinton Peters was an American army surgeon and writer who lived from 1829 to 1876. He is chiefly known as the author of The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, a widely circulated 1858 book based on material narrated by Carson himself.
Alongside his medical career in the U.S. Army, Peters spent time in the American Southwest and on the frontier, which gave his writing a strong connection to the places and events he described. His name also appears on later frontier and Western titles related to Kit Carson, helping fix Carson’s image in popular memory during the 19th century.
Today, Peters is remembered less as a literary stylist than as an important early interpreter of frontier history and myth. For audiobook listeners, his work offers a window into how the American West was being told, celebrated, and dramatized in his own era.