Eventually, once most of the tribes had been defeated, these ambitions culminated in the Mexican-American war beginning in 1846, largely manufactured by the US.Ĭarson was born on Christmas Eve, 1809, and at the age of 16 headed down the Santa Fe trail into largely unknown territory, an innocent catalyst with an exaggerated respect for federal authority and its representatives.
He had heavy resistance from the British, also anxious to control oriental trade routes and, of course, Mexico. Remarkably, Hampton Sides confirms that Carson wore fancy buckskins, was an expert scout profoundly familiar with the southwest, spoke all local languages, was respected by Utes, Apache, Navajo and Comanche, and generally succeeded in keeping the peace between natives and newcomers.īlood and Thunder tells its story chiefly through Carson and the Navajo leader Narbona, but offers considerable new research and understanding of the unlikable President Polk's mission to expand US dominion over Mexican territories from Texas to California in a colonising push to the Pacific.
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