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Author Name
Hampton Sides
Title Blood and Thunder The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
Binding Paperback
Publisher Anchor 2007
ISBN Number
1400031109 / 9781400031108
Seller ID 12557
Has some light reading wear/corner bumsp, otherwise, clean and unmarked. Nice Copy! ; 1.2 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 624 pages; 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.In Blood 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 other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.
19th Century United States Americas History Books United States Military
Price =
7.95 USD
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