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A native of Memphis, HAMPTON SIDES is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and the author of the international bestseller Ghost Soldiers, which was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film The Great Raid. Ghost Soldiers won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble, and his magazine work has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Hampton is also the author of Americana and Stomping Grounds. A graduate of Yale with a B.A. in history, he lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.
Prologue: Hoofbeats | p. 1 |
The New Men | |
Jumping Off | p. 7 |
The Glittering World | p. 22 |
The Army of the West | p. 29 |
Singing Grass | p. 37 |
Blue Bead Mountain | p. 45 |
Who Is James K. Polk? | p. 53 |
What a Wild Life! | p. 63 |
The Ruling Hand of Providence | p. 67 |
The Pathfinder | p. 74 |
When the Land Is Sick | p. 81 |
The Un-Alamo | p. 86 |
We Will Correct All This | p. 91 |
Narbona Pass | p. 94 |
The Uninvaded Silence | p. 97 |
On the Altar of the Country | p. 101 |
A Perfect Butchery | p. 106 |
The Fire of Montezuma | p. 111 |
Your Duty, Mr. Carson | p. 116 |
Daggers in Every Look | p. 127 |
Men with Ears Down to Their Ankles | p. 134 |
The Hall of Final Ruin | p. 139 |
The New Men | p. 150 |
A Broken Country | |
The Grim Metronome | p. 155 |
Lords of the Mountains | p. 165 |
The Devil's Turnpike | p. 174 |
Our Red Children | p. 189 |
Cold Steel | p. 192 |
El Crepusculo | p. 206 |
American Mercury | p. 229 |
Time at Last Sets All Things Even | p. 237 |
A Broken Country | p. 246 |
The Finest Head I Ever Saw | p. 269 |
The Death Knot | p. 275 |
Men Without Eyes | p. 283 |
Blood and Thunder | p. 299 |
Monster Slayer | |
The Fearing Time | p. 325 |
People of the Single Star | p. 340 |
The Sons of Some Dear Mother | p. 362 |
The Round Forest | p. 379 |
Children of the Mist | p. 396 |
General Orders No. 55 | p. 417 |
Fortress Rock | p. 429 |
The Long Walk | p. 445 |
Adobe Walls | p. 458 |
The Condition of the Tribes | p. 471 |
Crossing Purgatory | p. 482 |
Epilogue: In Beauty We Walk | p. 493 |
A Note on the Sources | p. 499 |
Notes | p. 503 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 531 |
Acknowledgments | p. 549 |
Index | p. 551 |
Art Credits | p. 557 |
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