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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West -- Hampton Sides, Paperback Education / Teaching showy orchidsNATIONAL 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