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Blood and thunder : the epic story of Kit Carson and the conquest of the American West   Cover Image Book Book

Blood and thunder : the epic story of Kit Carson and the conquest of the American West / Hampton Sides.

Sides, Hampton. (Author).

Summary:

Chronicles the history of the nineteenth-century Southwest, focusing on the destruction of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the 1860s, and looking at the role of trapper, soldier, and scout Kit Carson in the removal and deaths of the Native Americans.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781400031108
  • ISBN: 1400031109
  • Physical Description: xi, 578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Anchor Books edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2007, ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-548) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Target Audience Note:
Adult Follett Library Resources.
Subject: Carson, Kit, 1809-1868.
United States. Army > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Indians of North America > Wars > West (U.S.)
Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Navajo Indians > History > 19th century.
Southwest, New > History > 1848-
West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
United States > Territorial expansion.
West (U.S.) > History, Military > 19th century.

Available copies

  • 7 of 8 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Umatilla County Public Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Weston Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Weston Public Library 978.02 Si1 (Text) 37886000126309 Adult Non-Fiction Available -


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