He tells of Kit Carson’s involvement with General Edward Canby to drive out Confederate soldiers from New Mexico Territory. In the last book, Sides focuses on a specific period during the Civil War and the Indian Wars. Carson becomes increasingly famous as this story progresses through Book 2, “The Broken Country”. This makes it more difficult for peace to be achieved because there are now factions within each group that want war instead of peace. Narbona is a great leader who tries his best to keep peace between all of these parties, but he’s killed by an American soldier during one such negotiation attempt. They rescue Fremont from a Mexican prison, but they also encounter trouble when they try to negotiate peace treaties with the Navajo people. Frémont team up to fight the Mexicans in California and throughout the Southwest.
In the second book, “The Broken Country”, Kit Carson and John C.
Meanwhile, Stephen Watts Kearney leads the Army of the West across the Great Plains to engage with Mexicans. Narbona is imagined to have grown up in a Navajo culture that’s increasingly fearful of American incursion. The personalities and cultural forces behind the concept of Manifest Destiny, including Polk and Benton, are introduced. Kit Carson becomes a mountain man in 1826 after marrying Singing Grass but his way of life is threatened by economic pressures and over-hunting he joins John Fremont’s mapping team as they prepare maps for American expansion westward into Mexico their work soon gets them entangled with America’s conflict with Mexico. The Mexicans wait in trepidation for American troops, who suffer raids by an older enemy: Navajo Indians. Polk declares war on Mexico and wants to extend American boundaries from coast to coast. Hampton Sides says his book does justice to Carson’s life story by providing a thorough account of it.īook 1, “The New Men,” covers the beginning of the Mexican-American War through the arrival of the Army of the West in Santa Fe. The author has also written several books on historical events and people he’s been nominated for National Magazine Awards twice. It tells the story of Christopher Carson, who was instrumental in “settling” that part of America from 1820 to 1860. Published in 2001, Blood and Thunder is a narrative history of the American West. 1-Page Summary of Blood and Thunder Overall Summary
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