Record details

• ISBN: 0385507771
• ISBN: 9780385507776
• ISBN: 9781400031108 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 1400031109 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: xi, 460 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2006]
• Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

General Note:

Maps on endpapers.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-440) 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 -- The new men -- 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 -- A broken country -- 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.

Awards Note:

Mountains & Plains Book Award, 2007.

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