Rent Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

For years, I was so enamored of anything about American Indians that if it wasn't Indian, I wasn't interested in it. Yet somehow, I missed the story of the Navajos I guess I focused more on the Comanche and Kiowa tribes than what I thought of as Pueblo Indians. But having listened to Sides' book, I now know the Navajos were anything but pueblo Indians instead, they were definitely a force to be reckoned with.... and it seems Kit Carson was just the man to do it. Again, I was familiar with Carson's name but didn't really know how and where he fit into that era when the Indians were slowly but deliberately being pushed aside to make way for settlers from the eastern United States. The story is very well written which doesn't surprise me a bit I loved Sides' Ghost Soldiers, altho' at times Don Leslie's voice became very irritating to me and his mispronunciation of some words really erked my English teacher's ear. But all in all, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what _really_ happened in the Wild, Wild West.