Lions of the West : heroes and villains of the westward expansion / Robert Morgan.
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TextLanguage: English Series: A Shannon Ravenel BookPublication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiii, 497 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781565126268
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848
- Pioneers -- United States -- Biography
- Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Oeste (Estados Unidos) -- Historia -- Hasta 1848
- Oeste (Estados Unidos) -- Biografías
- Estados Unidos -- Expansión territorial
- Vida de pioneros -- Oeste (Estados unidos)
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- 002 E 179.5 M849l 2011
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"A Shannon Ravenel Book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brief chronology of the westward expansion era -- Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War -- Prologue : the empire for liberty -- Thomas Jefferson : he sees the elephant -- Andrew Jackson : Old Hickory at the Bend -- John Chapman : apples and angels -- David Crockett : comedian and martyr, his life and death -- Sam Houston : the president who loved to dance -- James K. Polk : Young Hickory keeps a diary -- Winfield Scott : Old Fuss and Feathers goes to the mountain -- Kit Carson : taking Boone's Trace to the Pacific -- Nicholas Trist : the search for a father voice -- Epilogue : John Quincy Adams : Old Man Eloquent.
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