Blood and Thunder Books and a new identity for

and a new identity for themselves and for the women who would follow them

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

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

" 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

Blood and Thunder Books and a new identity forIn 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