Hampton Sides, the author of "Blood and Thunder," a book about the expansion of the American West and its impact on the Navajo Nation, is making a stop on the Navajo Nation today.

Sides will speak to high school students before a presentation later tonight in Shiprock, New Mexico. He is being accompanied by a CBS television crew.

A major figure in the book is Kit Carson, who forced the Navajos to walk hundreds of miles to an Army fort in the 1860s.

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History author to appear in Shiprock, free to public (The Farmington Daily Times 12/5)

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