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Author Sides, Hampton.

Title Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West / Hampton Sides.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  978 SIDES    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  978.02 SIDES    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  978.02 SID    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  978.02 SID    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  978 SI13    DUE 05-13-24
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  978 SI13    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  978.02 SIDES    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  978.02 SIDES    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  978 SID    DUE 05-09-24
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  978 SID    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xi, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-440) and index.
Contents Prologue: Hoofbeats -- Book one: The new men -- Jumping off -- The glittering world -- The army of the west -- Singing grass -- Blue bead mountain -- Who is James K. Polk? -- What a wild life! -- The ruling hand of Providence -- The pathfinder -- When the land is sick -- The Un-Alamo -- We will correct all this -- Narbona pass -- The uninvaded silence -- On the altar of the country -- A perfect butchery -- The file of montezuma -- Your duty, Mr. Carson -- Daggers in every look -- Men with ears down to their ankles -- The hall of final ruin -- The new men -- Book Two: A broken country -- The grim metronome -- Lords of the mountains -- The devil's turnpike -- Our red children -- Cold steel -- El Crepusculo -- American mercury -- Time at last sets all things even -- A broken country -- The finest head I ever saw -- The death knot -- Men without eyes -- Blood and thunder -- Book three: Monster slayer -- The fearing time -- People of the single star -- The sons of some dear mother -- The round forest -- Children of the mist -- General orders No. 15 -- Fortress rock -- The long walk -- Adobe walls -- The condition of the tribes -- Crossing purgatory -- Epilogue: In beauty we walk.
Subject Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
Carson, Kit, 1809-1868.
Southwest, New -- History -- 1848-
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Subject United States. Army -- History -- 19th century.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Navajo Indians -- History -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- History, Military -- 19th century.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
ISBN 0385507771
Standard No. 9780385507776
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