Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won. 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. Hampton Sides tackles it with naked pleasure and narrative cunning: In. 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. 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. Blood and Thunder An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides Hardcover, 460 pages purchase Excerpt: 'Blood and Thunder' October 14, 20061:03 PM ET Hampton Sides tells the brutal. Blood and Thunder is a big-hearted book whose subject is as expansive as they come.

At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, On Desperate Ground, and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction.

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.In Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides gives us a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West. Wade Hampton Sides (born 1962) is an American historian, author and journalist. 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. Blood and Thunder is not author Hampton Sides’s first foray into narrative history and literary nonfiction. Signed Copy from Collected Works Bookstore

Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides