Blood and Thunder Books Essays with fresh historical insights

Essays with fresh historical insights that focus on the colorful individuals and events that shaped Santa Fe

” The more than 200 baskets in the show and the book include tourist pieces adorned with butterflies and peacocks and more traditional baskets whose geometric designs relate more to the stitching patterns used than to intentional decoration

" A long drought beginning in the 1660s and the accelerated raids of nomadic tribes contributed to the spontaneous revolt to the Pueblos in August 1680

on the occasion of Santa Fe’s 400th Annive

and Carol Smith

Blood and Thunder Books Essays with fresh historical insightsIn the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of Manifest Destiny, this land grab would lead to a decades long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. In Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides gives us a magnificent history of the American