Blood and Thunder Books as well as visitors who

as well as visitors who can only dream of living in the City Different

and Carol Smith

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

on the occasion of Santa Fe’s 400th Annive

The colorfully creative illustrations of Riyon Harding add to the adventure making this a storybook that readers young and old

Blood and Thunder Books as well as visitors whoIn 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