Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West / Hampton Sides.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sides, Hampton
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2006], ©2006.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Carson, Kit, > 1809-1868.
United States. > Army > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Indigenous peoples of North America > Wars > West (U.S.)
Indigenous peoples of North America > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Navajo people > History > 19th century.
West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
United States > Territorial expansion.
West (U.S.) > History, Military > 19th century.
New Southwest > History > 1848-
Physical Description:xi, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.