![]() ![]() 4.23 avg rating 35,263 ratings published 2001 49 editions. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission. This culminated in their final, desperate "stand" during 1863 at Canyon de Chelly, more than a decade after a contingent of federal troops-operating under a commander whose last name of "Washington" seems ironic in this context-killed their great leader, Narbona. Average rating: 4.27 89,957 ratings 7,895 reviews 29 distinct works Similar authors. Of course, as counterpoint to the progress of Carson and other whites, Sides details the fierce but doomed defense mounted by the Navajos over long decades. ![]() Books about Carson have been numerous, but Sides is better than most Carson biographers in setting his exploits against a larger backdrop: the unstoppable idea of manifest destiny. Sides depicts the complex role of whites in the subjugation of the Navajos through his portrait of Kit Carson-an illiterate trapper, soldier and scout who knew the Native Americans intimately, married two of them and, without blinking, participated in the Indians' slaughter. Inevitably, Sides's main focus is the virtual decimation of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the late 1860s. Hampton Sides writes an epic account of what really happened in the Southwest. ), eloquently paints the landscape and history of the 19th-century Southwest, combining Larry McMurtry's lyricism with the historian's attachment to facts. The title of the book is the moniker used to describe the ' dime novels ' written about Kit Carson's adventures during the turbulent Indian Wars of the 1850's through the 1860's. Magazine editor-at-large and bestselling author ( Ghost Soldiers Although delivering little in the way of new information, Sides, an Outside ![]()
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