The pacification of the Navaho nation took much timefor white men and the story of the first co tact between Navaho and the blue coated army of America and the twenty year resistance to put the Navahos on a reservation is a tale f the book called "Bood And Thunder" by Hamptn Sides. This ooo is about Navaho and the role Kit Carson played in battling this large Native American group among others in his long career as an Indian killer.
This book describes the Navaho lifestyle and how it was brawled with the opening upof the Santa Fe trail and the United States victor over Mexico gaining new lands for explorers and settlers to transverse.the Navaho menace had so long made New Mexicon unable to prosper and anemic as the Navaho were masters of the mounted raid. The Navahos were. Large and successful group that was constantly at war with Mexicans,Utes,Comanches,Apaches, or other Pueblo tribes. The book recounts the historical time period where American forces were defeating Mexico while the Navaho under war chief Narbona was firing Utes and Mexicans in a brutal struggle for retaining their homeland and most often the case the Navaho's were victorious. I was on,y a matter of time that the Americans would take over protective role of its new Hispanic citizens and take a side in this never ending battle between New Mexicans and Navaho. Many violent tales are retold in this great oak that involved Christoper "Kit "Carson who lived like an Indian and most often killed them with his Ute escorts in the American push West. He was an explorer and trailblazer knowing all the tricks of survival and played an important role to for the United Staes army. This book recounts the conquest of California and Carson's role and the first peace conference with the Navaho where jittery fingers on guns killed the great Navaho war chief Narbona and instantly started a long guerrilla war.
The Navaho would eventually agree t live a settled life but before that their enemy reps that would prey on Navaho wold have to be dealt. The role of Kit Carson and his last Indian fight wi the Comanches at Adobe Walls where a Carson's 's last stand was skllfully averted against a three thousand Comanche army. this important battle in a war defeating the Comanches was crucial for the Navaho to stay settled n the large reservation rewarded them by theUS government attempting to settle the wild Indianian problem tha dated centuries for towns and villages of the Southwest
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