TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morgan,Robert
TI  - Lions of the West: heroes and villains of the westward expansion 
SN  - 9781565126268
AV  - E179.5 M67 2011
U1  - 978/.02 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chapel Hill, N.C.
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - History
KW  - To 1848
N1  - "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
ER  -