5/24/2023 0 Comments Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides![]() ![]() ![]() “As the forerunners of Western civilization, creeping up the river valleys and across the mountain passes, the trappers brought smallpox and typhoid, they brought guns and whiskey and venereal disease, they brought the puzzlement of money and the gleam of steel. It is, as we know, the most romantic of stories, and arguably the most cherished of America’s myths.Įarly on, Hampton Sides writes of the mountain men: “Blood and Thunder” is the story of the quest for, and conquest of, the American West. After the journey of Lewis and Clark through the wilderness of the American West, a venture that might seem to us tentative, imperiled and pursued against all odds, there came unstoppable waves of humanity (and inhumanity), driven by dreams of gold and empire, and sustained by a certain sense of the inevitable, a conviction given the name Manifest Destiny. ![]()
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