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I’m grateful to the Santa Fe bookseller who put Hampton Sides’ “Blood and Thunder” into my hands some years ago. With Kit Carson’s death-defying exploits at its center, the book
A mix of history, memoir and biography, this book reflects on how time, perspective and stories left unwritten can shape our view of the past.
In the ambitious book 'Double Exposure,' the Old West photographer Timothy O'Sullivan becomes a little more famous but no less obscure.
In his fateful final Pacific voyage, Captain James Cook failed to find an ocean passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans but he did find Pacific islands, peoples and cultures unknown to Europeans
Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. In recent decades, Cook has been vilified by some scholars and cultural revisionists for bringing European diseases, guns and colonization. Sides’ book is sure to rile some Indigenous groups in Hawaii and elsewhere in the Pacific Islands, who contend Cook ushered in the destruction of Pacific Island cultures.