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Book Description: Doubleday. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 0385507771 This is a hardcover book with dust jacket. Bookseller Inventory # CHRIS925

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Book Description: Doubleday, Nat. American, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 9.30 X 6.10 X 1.70 inches; 480 pages; Brand new. Bookseller Inventory # 502854

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Book Description: Doubleday, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. Bookseller Inventory # 1304140063

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Book Description: Doubleday. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 0385507771 Never Read-may have minor shelf or handling wear to the cover or edges-may have price sticker on the cover or price inside cover-publishers mark- Good Copy- I ship FAST with FREE tracking!!. Bookseller Inventory # SKU000019653

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Book Description: Doubleday, New York, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Will Require Additional Postage. Additional Postage May Be Required. Bookseller Inventory # 000106

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Book Description: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 242 x 164 mm. Brand New Book. 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." --Howard Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University and editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American 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." --Candice Millard, author of "The River of Doubt" "Hampton Sides doesn't just write a book, he transports the reader to another time and place. With his keen sense of drama and his crackling writing style, this master storyteller has bequeathed us a majestic history of the Old West." --James Bradley, author of "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Flyboys" "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." --Russell Shorto, author of "Island at the Center of the World" "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." --Tony Hillerman "BLOOD AND THUNDER is a balanced, thoughtful summary of the American conquistadors in the 19th century Southwest. Hampton Sides has re-created violent events and such inflammatory figures as Kit Carson without bias. Carefully researched, thoroughly enjoyable." -Evan S. Connell, author of SON OF THE MORNING STAR, CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN "A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory"In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people's chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come to see if the rumors were true--if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders had built, he realized his foes had been vanquished--but what did the arrival of these "New Men" portend for the Navajo? Narbona could not have known that "The Army of the West," in the midst of the longest march in American military history, was merely the vanguard of an inexorable tide fueled by a self-righteous ideology now known as "Manifest Destiny." For twenty years the Navajo, elusive lords of a huge swath of mountainous desert and pasturelands, would ferociously resist the flood of soldiers and settlers who wished to change their ancient way of life or destroy them. Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the. Bookseller Inventory # FLT9780385507776

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Book Description: Doubleday, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition First Printing. New stated first edition, first printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. The story of Kit Carson. Protective mylar cover. 1.58 x 9.44 x 6.44 Inches 480 pages Collectible. Bookseller Inventory # 9866

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Book Description: Doubleday, NY, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Octavo. NO FINER COPY EXISTS. // NEW BOOK and DJ, both in GIFT-quality MINT condition, with new Mylar protection. // Hardcover, 460 pages, illustrated. // Face it: You want this book!. Bookseller Inventory # 008242

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Book Description: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2006. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. RARE Advance Reading Copy. 1st Printing. 1st Edition. New copy. Never read. Trade paperback format. Spine leans a tiny bit to the right. COLLECTOR'S COPY. Bookseller Inventory # 000992

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