Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

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This is a short excerpt from Blood and Thunder, the biography of Kit Carson, written by Hampton Sides. When I read this book I heard the author's voice as a somewhat graveled, richly nuanced tone that could shift emotional resonance often from one sentence to the next.

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Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (US General American - GenAM)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
He was also a natural born killer. It is hard to reconcile the much described sweetness of his disposition with his frenzies of violence. Carson could be brutal even for the west of his day. A West so wild it lacked outlaws, for no law yet existed. To be outside of. His ferocious temper could be triggered in an instant. If you crossed him, he would find you. He pursued vengeance, as though it was something sacred with a kind of dogged focus that might be called tribal. His tribe being the famously grudge happy scotch, irish.