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100	1		_aSides, Hampton
245	1	0	_aBlood and thunder _b: an epic of the American West _c/ Hampton Sides.
260			_aNew York _b: Doubleday _c, c2006.
300			_a460 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill., maps _c; 25 cm.
500			_aMaps on endpapers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [427]-440) and index.
520			_aA 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
600	1	4	_aCarson, Kit _d, 1809-1868
650			_aWest (U.S.) _x-History, Military _y-19th Century.
650		4	_aIndians of North America _x-Wars _z-West (U.S.).
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