Blood and Thunder The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West

Name: Blood and Thunder The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
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ISBN: 9781400031108

ISBN-10: 1400031109

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Authors: Hampton Sides

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In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. InBlood and Thunder, Hampton Sides gives us a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/9/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.93" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Hampton Sides, contributing editor of "Outside" & editor of "The Wild File," is also the author of "Ghost Soldiers". He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.



Prologue: Hoofbeats



The New Men



Jumping Off



The Glittering World



The Army of the West



Singing Grass



Blue Bead Mountain



Who Is James K. Polk?



What a Wild Life!



The Ruling Hand of Providence



The Pathfinder



When the Land Is Sick



The Un-Alamo



We Will Correct All This



Narbona Pass



The Uninvaded Silence



On the Altar of the Country



A Perfect Butchery



The Fire of Montezuma



Your Duty, Mr. Carson



Daggers in Every Look



Men with Ears Down to Their Ankles



The Hall of Final Ruin



The New Men



A Broken Country



The Grim Metronome



Lords of the Mountains



The Devil's Turnpike



Our Red Children



Cold Steel



El Crepusculo



American Mercury



Time at Last Sets All Things Even



A Broken Country



The Finest Head I Ever Saw



The Death Knot



Men Without Eyes



Blood and Thunder



Monster Slayer



The Fearing Time



People of the Single Star



The Sons of Some Dear Mother



The Round Forest



Children of the Mist



General Orders No. 55



Fortress Rock



The Long Walk



Adobe Walls



The Condition of the Tribes



Crossing Purgatory


Epilogue: In Beauty We Walk


A Note on the Sources


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index


Art Credits