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Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West / Hampton Sides.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sides, Hampton
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army.
- Navajo Indians.
- History.
- West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- West (U.S.).
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- United States.
- Territorial expansion.
- West (U.S.)--History, Military--19th century.
- United States. Army--History--19th century.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Carson, Kit, 1809-1868.
- Carson, Kit.
- Indians of North America--Wars--West (U.S.).
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Wars.
- Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Navajo Indians--History--19th century.
- Southwest, New--History--1848-.
- Southwest, New.
- New Southwest.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2006]
- Summary:
- Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, and at the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson--the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier who embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American experience in the West.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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. 15
- Fortress rock
- The long walk
- Adobe walls
- The condition of the tribes
- Crossing purgatory
- Epilogue: In beauty we walk.
- Notes:
- Maps on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-440) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0385507771
- OCLC:
- 70045754
- Publisher Number:
- 9780385507776
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