Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Author: Hampton Sides
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won – a Sweeping Tale of Shame and GloryIn 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-sui….Read More
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