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| Named Person: | Kit Carson |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hampton Sides |
| ISBN: | 0385507771 9780385507776 |
| OCLC Number: | 70045754 |
| Notes: | Maps on endpapers. |
| Description: | xi, 460 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue : Hoofbeats -- 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 fire 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | Hampton Sides. |
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Abstract:
Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and the "Long Walk" migration.
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- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- Territorial expansion.
- West (U.S.) -- History, Military -- 19th century.
- United States. -- Army -- History -- 19th century.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Carson, Kit, -- 1809-1868.
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
- Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
- Navajo Indians -- History -- 19th century.
- Southwest, New -- History -- 1848-