Sides is quite correct to begin his narrative much earlier, putting the events in historical context, bringing history to life. In fact, the Long Walk and Bosque Redondo cover only a small portion of the end of the book. soldiers in New Mexico during the Mexican War. His 460-page tome chronicles the conquest of the Navajos, beginning in 1846 with the arrival of U.S. Yet Blood and Thunder grew into something much larger. In 2002 Sides set out to write about the tragic fate of the Navajo during the Long Walk and their four-year internment at Bosque Redondo near Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory, from 1864 to 1868. 14 on the Times bestseller list, merely cements Sides’ reputation as the best narrative historian in America today.
And Blood and Thunder, which debuted at No. Actually, Hampton Sides found success with the critical and commercial hit Ghost Soldiers (the basis of the movie The Great Raid).
You know you’ve hit the big time when The New York Times assigns Pulitzer Prize– winner N. Wild West Book Review: Blood and Thunder Closeīlood and Thunder: An Epic of the American Westīy Hampton Sides, Doubleday, New York, 2006, $26.95.
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