Lions of the West
Subtitle: heroes and villains of the westward expansion
By: Robert Morgan
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing; A Shannon Ravenel Book
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9781616201890
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Pioneers; Presidents; Territorial expansion; Biography; History
Notes: "A Shannon Ravenel Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-467) and index.
Table of contents: title: Brief chronology of the westward expansion era; title: Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War; title: Prologue : the empire for liberty; title: Thomas Jefferson : seeing the elephant; title: Andrew Jackson : Old Hickory at the Bend; title: John Chapman : apples and angels; title: David Crockett : comedian and martyr, his life and death; title: Sam Houston : the president who loved to dance; title: James K. Polk : Young Hickory keeps a diary; title: Winfield Scott : Old Fuss and Feathers goes to the mountain; title: Kit Carson : taking Boone's Trace to the Pacific; title: Nicholas Trist : the search for a father voice; title: Epilogue : John Quincy Adams : Old Man Eloquent.