A magnificent 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.
At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit...
A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Boo...
'Hellhound on His Trail' is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some 9 months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one, of the greatest American figures of the 20th century, Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Hellhound on His Trail' is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some 9 months in the late ...
