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Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West

Call Number

  • 978 S5687 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Doubleday, c2006.

Physical Description

xi, 460 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes

Maps on lining.

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
  • 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
  • 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.

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