TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sides,Hampton
TI  - Blood and thunder: an epic of the American West 
SN  - 0385507771
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Carson, Kit,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Wars
KW  - Navajo Indians
KW  - Southwest, New
KW  - 1848-
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - History, Military
N1  - Maps on endpapers; Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-440) and index; 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
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