Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West

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

Summary:

Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and the "Long Walk" migration.

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.