# Blood And Thunder

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- Book: [Blood And Thunder](https://www.bookquiver.com/hampton-sides/blood-and-thunder) ([Blood And Thunder.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hampton-sides/blood-and-thunder.md))
- Authors: [Hampton Sides](https://www.bookquiver.com/hampton-sides)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4912-031-7
- Published: 2008-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but at the centre of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson - the legendary trapper, scout and soldier. Carson was an illiterate mountain man who twice married Indian women and understood the tribes better than any other American alive; yet he was also a cold-blooded killer and an unquestioning patriot who willingly followed orders tantamount to massacre. BLOOD AND THUNDER is a chronicle of one of a pivotal era in American history: grand in scope, immediate in detail, impeccably researched and historically revelatory. 'Hampton Sides' outstanding narrative history has all the virtues: stirring set pieces, deft character studies, colourful descriptions of battles and of nature . . . a riveting tale where, for once, the word " epic" is not hyperbole' Frank McLynn, Independent on Sunday