Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American WestDoubleday, 2006 - Počet stran: 460 Praise for "Blood and Thunder" "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. 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. Unusually, Sides gives full voice to Indian leaders themselves about their trials and tribulations in their dealings with the whites. 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." "The story of the American West has seldom been told with such intimacy and immediacy. Legendary figures like Kit Carson leap to life and history moves at a pulse-pounding pace--sweeping the reader along with it. Hampton Sides is a terrific storyteller." ""Blood and Thunder" is a big-hearted book whose subject is as expansive as they come. Hampton Sides tackles it with naked pleasure and narrative cunning: In his telling, the vast saga of America's westward push has a logical center. The dusty town of Santa Fe becomes the nexus around which swirl the fortunes and strategies of a mixed set of serious overachievers, from Kit Carson, the original mountain man, to James K. Polk, the enigmatic president whose achievements, in the dreaded name of Manifest Destiny, were almost biblical in scope. Sides is alive to the exuberance and alert to the tragedy of the taking of the West." "For a huge percentage of us immigrant Americans (those whose ancestors arrived after 1492), Hampton Sides fills a gaping hole in our knowledge of American history--a vivid account of how 'The New Men' swept away the thriving civilizations of the Native Americans in their conquest of the West." "A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory |
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... walls , the village looked like a medieval Moroccan citadel set against the Atlas Mountains . At the northwestern corner stood the enormous mission church of St. Jerome , whose twin belltowers rose thirty feet into the gray winter sky ...
... Walls . The Bents had built it years earlier as a satellite outpost of their then extensive empire , using it as a safehouse from which to carry on trade with the Comanches ( who , because of their mutual hostility with other Plains ...
... Walls and unlimber the two artillery pieces . Then , with a sweeping gesture toward the mustering warriors , Carson told his artillerymen , " Throw a few shell into that crowd over thar . " " Number one - Fire ! Number two - Fire ...
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