It’s Trying to Be a Rainy Day

It’s a cool, almost dreary day here by the Sandia Mountains; a good day to curl up with a book. And so I shall, with Hampton Sides’s Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, a new history of the conquest of the American southwest and California.

Reviews for Blood and Thunder have been positive, most finding the storytelling compelling. In the Times, William Grimes wrote it’s a “rousing, full-throated rendition of an old story, the making of the American West.”

I’ll let you know. [See here.]