Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
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Hampton Sides. (2006). Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Hampton Sides. 2006. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West. Books on Tape.

Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West. Books on Tape, 2006.

Hampton Sides. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2006.

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   • bioText: A native of Memphis, HAMPTON SIDES is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and the author of the international bestseller Ghost Soldiers, which was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film The Great Raid. Ghost Soldiers won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble, and his magazine work has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Hampton is also the author of Americana and Stomping Grounds. A graduate of Yale with a B.A. in history, he lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).
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. 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.
At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. 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. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.

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   • content: "Riveting . . . monumental . .. . Not only does Blood and Thunder capture a pivotal moment in U.S. history in marvelous detail, it is also authoritative and masterfully told."
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   • source: Los Angeles Times
   • content: "Stunning. . . Both haunting and lyrical, Blood and Thunder is truly a masterpiece."
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   • source: N. Scott Momaday, The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "We see a panorama and a whole history, intricately laced with wonder and meaning, coalesce into a story of epic proportions, a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy . . . Sides fills a conspicuous void in the history of the American West."
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   • source: San Antonio Express News
   • content: "From the lean crisp descriptions of the characters to the sights, sounds and smells of the trail, this is a crystal clear picture of the West."
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   • content: The central character is Kit Carson; the central topic, the nineteenth-century conquest of the Hispanic West from New Mexico to California. This part of our war with Mexico may not be well known, but it was central to President Polk's purpose--the fulfillment of the "manifest destiny" of the United States. Don Leslie gives a straightforward, well-paced reading of this fascinating piece of history, holding the listener's attention through the power of the words. Leslie's narration is consistently sensitive to the mood of the story. Although Carson is the only character given a distinctive voice, it's a telling one--a soft Missouri drawl that gives personality to the quotations from his autobiography. R.E.K. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
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   • content: Kit Carson, the mythic frontiersman from the American Southwest, represented the best and worst of U.S. settlement of the region. Hampton Sides uses Carson as the focal point of the conflict between the spreading Anglo culture and the Navajo culture. Sides details the lives of Carson and other key figures in the history of the area and explores its sometimes explosive history. The abridgment is nearly seamless. Scenes are presented in enough length that their impact and context are clear. The excellent Don Leslie doesn't put on contrived accents. He does give a rural tone to passages that represent Carson's own words. Otherwise, he reads clearly, using intonation and rising volume for dramatic effect. R.C.G. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
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     Although delivering little in the way of new information, Sides, an Outside
     magazine editor-at-large and bestselling author (Ghost Soldiers
     ), eloquently paints the landscape and history of the 19th-century Southwest, combining Larry McMurtry's lyricism with the historian's attachment to facts. Inevitably, Sides's main focus is the virtual decimation of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the late 1860s. Sides depicts the complex role of whites in the subjugation of the Navajos through his portrait of Kit Carson—an illiterate trapper, soldier and scout who knew the Native Americans intimately, married two of them and, without blinking, participated in the Indians' slaughter. Books about Carson have been numerous, but Sides is better than most Carson biographers in setting his exploits against a larger backdrop: the unstoppable idea of manifest destiny. Of course, as counterpoint to the progress of Carson and other whites, Sides details the fierce but doomed defense mounted by the Navajos over long decades. This culminated in their final, desperate "stand" during 1863 at Canyon de Chelly, more than a decade after a contingent of federal troops—operating under a commander whose last name of "Washington" seems ironic in this context—killed their great leader, Narbona.

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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. 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.
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