Blood and ThunderKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 9 Οκτ 2007 - 624 σελίδες NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). 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. 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. |
Περιεχόμενα
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The Army of the West | 29 |
Singing Grass | 37 |
Blue Bead Mountain | 45 |
Who Is James K Polk? | 53 |
What a Wild Life | 63 |
The Devils Turnpike | 174 |
Our Red Children | 189 |
Cold Steel | 192 |
El Crepusculo | 206 |
American Mercury | 229 |
Time at Last Sets All Things Even | 237 |
A Broken Country | 246 |
The Finest Head I Ever Saw | 269 |
The Ruling Hand of Providence | 67 |
The Pathfinder | 74 |
When the Land Is Sick | 81 |
The UnAlamo | 86 |
We Will Correct All This | 91 |
Narbona Pass | 94 |
The Uninvaded Silence | 97 |
On the Altar of the Country | 101 |
A Perfect Butchery | 106 |
The Fire of Montezuma | 111 |
Your Duty Mr Carson | 116 |
Daggers in Every Look | 127 |
Men with Ears Down to Their Ankles | 134 |
The Hall of Final Ruin | 139 |
The New Men | 150 |
A BROKEN COUNTRY | 153 |
The Grim Metronome | 155 |
Lords of the Mountains | 165 |
The Death Knot | 275 |
Men Without Eyes | 283 |
Blood and Thunder | 299 |
MONSTER SLAYER | 323 |
The Fearing Time | 325 |
People of the Single Star | 340 |
The Sons of Some Dear Mother | 362 |
The Round Forest | 379 |
Children of the Mist | 396 |
General Orders No 15 | 417 |
The Long Walk | 445 |
Adobe Walls | 458 |
The Condition of the Tribes | 471 |
In Beauty We Walk | 493 |
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Acknowledgments | 549 |
Art Credits 557 | 577 |
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