Hampton Sides
Author
Language
English
Description
For more than fifteen years, bestselling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. In these two dozen pieces, collected here for the first time, Sides gives us a fresh, alluring, and at times startling America brimming with fascinating subcultures and bizarre characters who could live nowhere else. Following Sides, we crash the redwood...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xi, 578 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and the Long Walk migration.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2́006
Physical Desc
17 audio discs (21 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
-- The River of Doubt "Hampton Sides doesn't just write a book, he transports the reader to another time and place. With his keen sense of drama and his crackling writing style, this master storyteller has bequeathed us a majestic history of the Old West." -James Bradley, author of -- A 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...