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Lions of the West : heroes and villains of the westward expansion / Robert Morgan.

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ISBN: 9781616201890 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxiii, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing, 2012.
Copyright: ©2011.

General Note:	"A Shannon Ravenel Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-467) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Brief 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.