| Show 11 lir Salt I ake Trlmilk BEST SELLERS Here are the week's best sellers reprinted from Pub- Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember Fred Rogers HypPrinn $16 95 15 The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Schools Faith and Military Michael Savage Hardcover nction 1 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Doubleday S2495 2 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Mbom Hyperion $1995 3 Absolute Friends John le Carre Little Brown $2695 4 The Zero Game Brad Meltzer Warner 62595 Mass-Mark- $799 11 Key of Light Nora Roberts Jove $799 12 Key of Knowledge Nora Roberts Jove $799 13 The Cat Who Brought Down the House Lilian Jackson Braun Berkley $699 14 Lucky's Lady Tami Hoag Bantam $799 15 Late Bloomer Fern Michaels Pocket Star $799 $2495 2 The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom Dr Phil McGraw Free Press $26 3 The Price of Loyalty: George W Bush the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill Ron Suskind S&S They were three individuals who KIT CARSON led lity's probably filled with their own drama and excitement and importance and Sim nzons makes at least an effort to help us understand who they were But history is never completejacts &ffisThreeWives status of Kit Carson as an icon is a bit like that of say Spears or Michael Jordan: The name is enough to create interest even if there isn't much substance Not that Carson's role in America was as vapid as that of a pop star or as inconsequential as that of an athlete But it is fame not importance that invites interest Marc Simmons' Kit Corson & His Three Whys is a book that probably never would have been published if Carson were not famous It adds little to our understanding of who Carson was nothing to our appreciation of his role in American history and because of what even the author admits is the paucity of hard information about the private lives of his three wives" doesn't even help us know three of the four people referred to in the title For example his first wife Waa-nibgets only a chapter in the book and much of that is devoted to the famous fight Carson had with a man probably named Joseph Chouinard at the 1835 Mountain Men Rendezvous at Green River in what is now Wyoming Here as throughout the book Simmons is speculative and hesitant in reporting facts He writes: "Historians and writers remain about evenly divided over whether he Carson did or did not kill Joseph Chouinard" A future friend of Carson would later say the fight "was all over this squaw" and Simmons writes "A reasonable conjecture is that the 'squaw' in question was the Northern Arapaho girl Waa-nibwhom Kit took for his wife probably soon after the break-uof the rendezvous" Such hesitancy ("did or did not kill" "reasonable conjecture" "probably") is appropriate in an historian striving to establish preciseness but it certainly does riot leave the reader with a feeling that the facts have been established They were married four years had two daughters (Adaline and one whose name is not known) and lived a fairly quiet life Waa-nib- e died of a fever (perhaps associated with childbirth) The only personal comment Carson is known to have made about Waa-nibcame a decade later when he told someone "She The Honor WEB Griffin Berkley The South Beach Diet Arthur Agatston MD Rodale Book reviews qf regional interest BY MARTIN NAPARSTLCK did 10 mit Tribune 6 Deception Point Dan 1 A iAMIL1 HiSrORY I 4 0- - r4"kk ts tm are always miming or wrong or misunderstood In the ease of e Making Out Road and fasefa Carson history has 1 tfpPf fraa-nib- 144 once again revealed its 1 overpowaing indiffaence 1kt it married to Josefa During that time he led John C Fremont on his explorations of the West for the US Army and helped imprison about 8000 Navajo in a concentration-campliksetting at Bosque Redondo That kept Carson away from home for extended periods and he seems to have regretted not being able to spend more time with his children Unlike Making Out Road Jo sefa seemed content to lead a quiet domestic life in their Taos home "That Waa-nibMaking Out Road and Josefa appear in history at all is owing almost entirely to the happenstance of their marriages to a frontier hero and national celebrity" Simmons writes "In the absence of that association they would now be completely forgotten" No doubt he is right and no doubt that is unfair They were three individuals who led lives probably filled with their own drama and excitement and importance and Simmons makes at least an effort to help us understand who they were But history is never complete facts are always missing or wrong or misunderstood In the case of Waanibe Making Out Road and Josefa Carson history has once again revealed its overpowering indifference e e Trade Paperbacks 1 South Beach Diet Good FatsGood Carbs Guide Arthur Agatston MD Rodale $799 2 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Perennial $14 3 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Penguin $14 4 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier Vintage $13 5 Life of Pi Yann Martel HarcourtHarvest $14 6 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Picador $15 7 All He Ever Wanted Anita Shreve Little BrownBack Bay $26 4 The Purpose-Drive- n Life Rick Warren Zondervan $1999 5 The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful Plan to Live and Finish Rich David Bach Broadway $1995 6 American Dynasty: Aristocracy Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush Kevin Phillips Viking $2595 7 The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands Dr Laura SchlessInger Harper Collins $2495 8 Eating for Life: Your Guide to Great Health Fat Loss and Increased Energy Bill Phillips High Point Media $35 9 Dude Where's My Country? 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WEB Griffin Putnam $2695 8 The Lady and the Unicorn Tracy Chevalier Dutton S2395 9 The Big Bad Wolf James Patterson Little Brown $2795 10 Mr Paradise Elmore Leonard Morrow $2595 11 Pompeii Robert Harris Random House $2495 12 Angels & Demons Dan Brown Atria $1795 13 The Kills Linda Fairstein Scribner $25 1 4 Emma's Secret Barbara Taylor Bradford St Martin's $2495 15 The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters Elisabeth Robinson Little Brown $2395 THE WEST UNDER COVER Kit Carson & I Iis Three Wives 1 5 New Spring Robert Jordan L Western Icon: Story of frontiersman and his three wives offers little new information on the controversial figure WND $2799 Tor $2295 SulAt A partially assembled Kit 14 The World According to lishers Weekly BOOKS Bars Pete Rose with Rick Hill Rodale $2495 12 The Present: Enjoying Your Work and Life in Changing Times Spencer Johnson 13 Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't Jim Collins HarperBusiness $2750 was a good wife to me I never came in from hunting that she did not have the warm water ready for my feet" He next married a Cheyenne Making Out Road probably in 1841 She may have resented caring for the two daughters by his first marriage and was known to be pretty and strong-willeHer name may (or may not) have been the Cheyenne equivalent of "laying down the law" a reflection ()flier personality They had one baby who died in infancy Probably in 1842 following Cheyenne custom of the time she divorced him by simply putting his belongs outside their e e lodge He seems to have started courting Josefa e Jaramillo a New Mexican even before Making Out Road kicked him out They married in 1843 when she was 14 and he was 33 and remained married for two and half decades She died on April 27 1868 probably of the same "childbed fever" that killed Waa-nibHe died less than a month later on May 23 when an "aneurysm ruptured into the trachea" By the time they died there were three boys and four girls in the household In addition to children Josefa gave birth to they had ransomed two Navajos a boy and girl from tiles who had captured them Carson achieved most of his fame while p e e Martin Naparsteck reviews books from and about the West for The Salt Lake Tribune PAPERBACKS IN BRIEF -' diiiio- By NANCY PATE book-sellin- Knight !Udder Nettli Service Mumbo Gumbo by Jerrilyn Farmer (Avon $699): Farmer cooks up a scrumptious concoction mixing food reality TV and zany convincing characters Caterer Madeleine Bean takes a temporary writing job on the hit quiz show "Food Freak" where Chef Howie presides over two teams of dueling chefs Maddie is diverted from putting together a special episode when she is beaned over the head in a missing writer's office discovers a secret door leading to a hidden room and finds a mysterious message Farmer who has written for Hollywood game shows dishes up a satisfying meal Murder Between the Covers by Elaine Viets Job (Signet $599): In the second of the Dead-Enmysteries Helen Hawthorne a former corporate executive on the run from the law goes to work in a Fort Lauderdale bookstore When the obnoxious owner Page Turner HI is murdered in a building tented for termites his lover is the prime suspect But there are plenty of others including bookstore employees and disgruntled authors who hated at the bookTurner And then there is a break-istore Viets offers a witty deftly plotted story that e d n ''''' 04 4 '''''''"-"- -- 4 ---- - 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