5/22/2023 0 Comments Blood and Thunder by Hampton SidesLegendary figures like Kit Carson leap to life and history moves at a pulse-pounding pace-sweeping the reader along with it. “The story of the American West has seldom been told with such intimacy and immediacy. Howard Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University and editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American West Here is a national hero on the level of Daniel Boone, presented with all of his flaws and virtues, in the context of American people’s belief that it was their Manifest Destiny to occupy the entire West.” Unusually, Sides gives full voice to Indian leaders themselves about their trials and tribulations in their dealings with the whites. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans. “Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West.
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