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The Earth is all that lasts : Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation / Mark Lee Gardner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Mariner Books, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 543 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color), map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062669896
  • 0062669893
Other title:
  • Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation
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Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.Summary: 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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"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." --Wall Street Journal

A magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn

True West magazine's "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year"

Winner of the Colorado Book Award

Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer's vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendary victory at the Little Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of their rich and complex lives. Now, based on years of research and drawing on a wealth of previously ignored primary sources, award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner delivers the definitive chronicle, thrillingly told, of these extraordinary Indigenous leaders.

Both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull 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 as idyllic as this life seemed to be, neither man had known a time without whites. Fur traders and government explorers were the first to penetrate Sioux lands, but they were soon followed by a flood of white intruders: Oregon-California Trail travelers, gold seekers, railroad men, settlers, town builders--and Bluecoats. The buffalo population plummeted, disease spread by the white man decimated villages, and conflicts with the interlopers increased.

On June 25, 1876, in the valley of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and the warriors who were inspired to follow them, fought the last stand of the Sioux, a fierce and proud nation that had ruled the Great Plains for decades. It was their greatest victory, but it was also the beginning of the end for their treasured and sacred way of life. And in the years to come, both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defiant to the end, would meet violent--and eerily similar--fates.

An essential new addition to the canon of Indigenous American history and literature of the West, The Earth Is All That Lasts is a grand saga, both triumphant and tragic, of two fascinating and heroic leaders struggling to maintain the freedom of their people against impossible odds.

A Denver Post Bestseller

A Spur Award Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction

Winner of the John M. Carroll Literary Award

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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