- Gebundene Ausgabe: 480 Seiten
- Verlag: Doubleday (3. Oktober 2006)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0385507771
- ISBN-13: 978-0385507776
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 16,3 x 3,9 x 24,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 141.827 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Although delivering little in the way of new information, Sides, an Outside magazine editor-at-large and bestselling author (Ghost Soldiers), eloquently paints the landscape and history of the 19th-century Southwest, combining Larry McMurtry's lyricism with the historian's attachment to facts. Inevitably, Sides's main focus is the virtual decimation of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the late 1860s. Sides depicts the complex role of whites in the subjugation of the Navajos through his portrait of Kit Carson—an illiterate trapper, soldier and scout who knew the Native Americans intimately, married two of them and, without blinking, participated in the Indians' slaughter. Books about Carson have been numerous, but Sides is better than most Carson biographers in setting his exploits against a larger backdrop: the unstoppable idea of manifest destiny. Of course, as counterpoint to the progress of Carson and other whites, Sides details the fierce but doomed defense mounted by the Navajos over long decades. This culminated in their final, desperate "stand" during 1863 at Canyon de Chelly, more than a decade after a contingent of federal troops—operating under a commander whose last name of "Washington" seems ironic in this context—killed their great leader, Narbona. (Oct. 3)
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The American conquest and settlement of the Southwest and California were the opening salvos in the drive to fufill our "manifest destiny" to dominate the continent. Sides, a magazine editor and historian who lives in New Mexico, has written an enthralling account that concentrates on the period that begins with the Mexican War and ends with the forced "roundup" of the Navajo at the Canyon de Chelly. This is not a straight narrative history. Rather, Sides advances this epic story by providing wonderful portraits of some of the key participants in the saga, including Stephen Kearny, John Fremont, the Navajo warrior Narbona, and Senator Thomas Hart Benton. But at the center of this chronicle is the famed mountain man, scout, and entrepreneur, Kit Carson. As portrayed by Sides, Carson was a study in contradictions. Illiterate but extremely intelligent, Carson respected Indians and took two Indian wives, but he could act as a cold-blooded killer when government policy required action against Indians. This work will be an excellent addition to collections on western history. Jay Freeman
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