Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
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wild west
history
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A wonderful historical past of the American conquest of the West; “a story filled with authority and colour, reality and prophecy” (The New York Occasions E book Review).
In the summer season of 1846, the Military of the West marched thru Santa Fe, en path to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by way of Mexico. Fueled by way of the brand new ideology of “Occur Future,” this land grasp may result in a many years-lengthy combat among america and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of an enormous swath of mountainous wasteland wasteland.
At the middle of this sweeping story is Equipment Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Aspects presentations us how this illiterate mountain guy understood and revered the Western tribes higher than some other American, but willingly adopted orders that might in the long run devastate the Navajo country. Wealthy intimately and spanning greater than 3 many years, that is an very important addition to our figuring out of the way the West used to be truly received.
paperback
wild west
historical past
printed in 2006
made in USA
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