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Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West
- Title
- Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West / Hampton Sides.
- Author
- Sides, Hampton.
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, c2006.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 460 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- 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
- West (U.S.) > History > 19th century
- United States > Territorial expansion
- West (U.S.) > History, Military > 19th century
- Southwest, New > History > 1848-
- Note
- Maps on endpapers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-440) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JGE 06-266
- ISBN
- 0385507771
- 9780385507776
- LCCN
- 2006016579
- 9780385507776
- OCLC
- 70045754
- Author
- Sides, Hampton.
- Title
- Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West / Hampton Sides.
- Imprint
- New York : Doubleday, c2006.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-440) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780385507776
- Research Call Number
- JGE 06-266