Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

Kit Carson was a small, illiterate, soft-spoken trapper who couldn’t read the dime novels that made him a legend while he was still alive. Sides uses him as the thread through the whole conquest of the Southwest — the Mexican…

Anasazi America

David E. Stuart

Everybody wants Chaco to be a mystery. Stuart, an anthropologist at New Mexico who’s spent his career out there, knows it isn’t. It was a boom town. Great houses five stories high, dead-straight roads running for miles across nothing, macaws…