Blood and Thunder Books The colorfully creative illustrations of

The colorfully creative illustrations of Riyon Harding add to the adventure making this a storybook that readers young and old

Essays with fresh historical insights that focus on the colorful individuals and events that shaped Santa Fe

Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians

” The more than 200 baskets in the show and the book include tourist pieces adorned with butterflies and peacocks and more traditional baskets whose geometric designs relate more to the stitching patterns used than to intentional decoration

Blood and Thunder Books The colorfully creative illustrations ofIn 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 between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. In Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides gives us a magnificent history of the American