![]() Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West Audible Audiobook Unabridged Hampton Sides (Author), Don Leslie (Narrator), & 1 more 4,686 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West Paperback Import, Maby Hampton Sides (Author) 4,726 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 15.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 27.31 Other new, used and collectible from 3. ![]() Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Fueled by the new ideology of "Manifest Destiny," this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness.Īt the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. ![]() ![]() In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West-"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" ( The New York Times Book Review). Published in 2001, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West is a narrative history of the turbulent period from the 1800s to the 1860s, the settling of the American West. ![]()
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