Blood and Thunder An Epic of the American West

Name: Blood and Thunder An Epic of the American West
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ISBN: 9780385507776

ISBN-10: 0385507771

ISBN-13: 9780385507776

Edition: 2006

Authors: Hampton Sides

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A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won—an Epic Tale of Shame and Glory In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come to see if the rumors were true—if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders had built, he realized his foes had been destroyed—but what did the arrival of these “New Men” portend for the Navajo? Narbona could not have known that “The…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/3/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.024
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