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001 2012462826
003 DLC
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008 130617t20122011ncuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012462826
020 $a9781616201890 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---$an-usp---
050 00 $aE179.5$b.M67 2012
082 00 $a973$223
100 1 $aMorgan, Robert,$d1944-
245 10 $aLions of the West :$bheroes and villains of the westward expansion /$cRobert Morgan.
250 $aFirst paperback edition.
264 1 $aChapel Hill, North Carolina :$bAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing,$c2012.
264 4 $c©2011.
300 $axxiii, 497 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"A Shannon Ravenel Book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 461-467) and index.
505 0 $aBrief chronology of the westward expansion era -- Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War -- Prologue : the empire for liberty -- Thomas Jefferson : seeing 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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$yTo 1848.
650 0 $aPioneers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aPioneers$zWest (U.S.)$vBiography.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.