Blood and Thunder

Carson had slowly come to recognize the massive failure of the bosque.

征服失败回潮，plot 93。

it seemed he had done everything there was to do in the Western wilds—had been everywhere, met everyone.

传奇履历塑人，cast 92。

the leading third of the command…was now charging full-tilt, while the other two-thirds were merely limping along

战场分裂加速，pace 91。

Bugles sounded, the boulder fields seethed with acrid blue smoke, and artillery shells sliced the tops off the trees.

感官史笔，prose 93。

He had traversed the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Mojave Deserts, gazed upon the Grand Canyon

地理百科即世界，world 96。

In the two decades he had lived and wandered in the West, Christopher Carson had led an unaccountably full life.

履历即悬念，hook 94。

Let me lead them back while they still have the will to live.

英雄反转可能性，innov 90。

the provenance of this quote seems fishy. Certainly it doesn’t sound much like Carson.

史家自疑收束，ending 89。