![]() ![]() ![]() Sides depicts the complex role of whites in the subjugation of the Navajos through his portrait of Kit Carson-an illiterate trapper, soldier and scout who knew the Native Americans intimately, married two of them and, without blinking, participated in the Indians' slaughter. Inevitably, Sides's main focus is the virtual decimation of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the late 1860s. ), eloquently paints the landscape and history of the 19th-century Southwest, combining Larry McMurtry's lyricism with the historian's attachment to facts. Magazine editor-at-large and bestselling author ( Ghost Soldiers ![]() Although delivering little in the way of new information, Sides, an Outside ![]()
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