The Earth is all that lasts : Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation /
Gardner, Mark Lee, 1960-
The Earth is all that lasts : Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation / Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation Mark Lee Gardner. - First edition. - xiv, 543 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color), map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-528) and index.
Hóka hé! -- Becoming warriors -- native ground -- Visions of the future -- The invasion of good horse grass country -- The hundred in the hand -- Too many tongues -- Land of uncertainty -- The act of thieves -- Soldiers coming with heads down -- A winter war -- Father, I want to see you -- The end of freedom -- Ghosts.
"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." --From book jacket. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. These two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer's vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Gardner delivers the definitive chronicle of these extraordinary Indigenous leaders. Both were born and grew to manhood on the High Plains of the American West, in an era when vast herds of buffalo covered the earth, and when their nomadic people could move freely, following the buffalo and lording their fighting prowess over rival Indian nations. But neither man had known a time without whites. On June 25, 1876, in the valley of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the warriors who followed them fought the last stand of the Sioux. It was their greatest victory, but it was also the beginning of the end for their treasured and sacred way of life. -- adapted from jacket
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Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877.
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
Dakota Indians--History--19th century.
Dakota Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography.
Indians of North America--Biography.
West (U.S.)--History--1848-1860.
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.
Biographies.
The Earth is all that lasts : Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation / Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation Mark Lee Gardner. - First edition. - xiv, 543 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color), map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-528) and index.
Hóka hé! -- Becoming warriors -- native ground -- Visions of the future -- The invasion of good horse grass country -- The hundred in the hand -- Too many tongues -- Land of uncertainty -- The act of thieves -- Soldiers coming with heads down -- A winter war -- Father, I want to see you -- The end of freedom -- Ghosts.
"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." --From book jacket. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. These two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer's vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Gardner delivers the definitive chronicle of these extraordinary Indigenous leaders. Both were born and grew to manhood on the High Plains of the American West, in an era when vast herds of buffalo covered the earth, and when their nomadic people could move freely, following the buffalo and lording their fighting prowess over rival Indian nations. But neither man had known a time without whites. On June 25, 1876, in the valley of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the warriors who followed them fought the last stand of the Sioux. It was their greatest victory, but it was also the beginning of the end for their treasured and sacred way of life. -- adapted from jacket
9780062669896 0062669893
GBC2D4407 bnb
020699340 Uk
Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877.
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
Dakota Indians--History--19th century.
Dakota Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography.
Indians of North America--Biography.
West (U.S.)--History--1848-1860.
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.
Biographies.