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This book is well-written and an enjoyable listen. If you want a laser focus on Kit Carson’s life this isn’t it, I liked how instead it uses Carson’s life as the main thread of the story while touching on a lot of other people and issues of the time. It gave me a lot of context and background to the Wild West as it really was. Boy, it was wild, but not necessarily in the stereotypical ways we immediately think of.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).
In 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.
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