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The heart of everything that is : the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers, the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Born in 1821 near the Platte River in modern-day Nebraska, Red Cloud lived an epic life of courage, wisdom, and fortitude in the face of a relentless enemy -- the soldiers and settlers who represented the "manifest destiny" of an expanding America. He grew up an orphan and had to overcome numerous social disadvantages to advance in Sioux culture. Red Cloud did that by being the best fighter, strategist, and leader of his fellow warriors. As the white man pushed farther and farther west, they stole the Indians' land, slaughtered the venerated buffalo, and murdered with impunity anyone who resisted their intrusions. The final straw for Red Cloud and his warriors was the U.S. government's frenzied spate of fort building throughout the pristine Powder River Country that abutted the Sioux's sacred Black Hills -- Paha Sapa to the Sioux, or "The Heart of Everything That Is." The result was a gathering of angry tribes under one powerful leader. What came to be known as Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) culminated in a massacre of American cavalry troops that presaged the Little Bighorn and served warning to Washington that the Plains Indians would fight, and die, for their land and traditions. But many more American soldiers would die first.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451654660 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1451654669 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781451654684 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1451654685 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1451654707 (ebk.)
- ISBN: 9781451654707 (ebk.)
- Physical Description: xii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 369-397) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The prairie. First contact ; Guns and badlands ; The Black Hills and beyond ; "Red Cloud comes!" ; Counting coup ; "Print the legend" -- The invasion. Old Gabe ; The glory road ; Pretty Owl and Pine Leaf ; A blood-tinged season ; A lone stranger ; Samuel Colt's invention ; A brief respite ; The Dakotas rise -- The resistance. Strong hearts ; An army in shambles ; Blood on the ice ; The great escape ; Bloody bridge station ; The hunt for Red Cloud ; Burn the bodies; eat the horses -- The war. War is peace ; Big bellies and shirt wearers ; Colonel Carrington's circus ; Here be monsters ; The perfect fort ; "Mercifully kill all the wounded" roughing it ; A thin blue line ; Fire in the belly ; High plains drifters -- The massacre. Fetterman ; Dress rehearsal ; Soldiers in both hands ; The half-man's omen ; Broken arrows ; "Like hogs brought to market" ; Fear and mourning.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | BIO RED DRUR 2013 | 283983 | Biography | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | BIO RED DRUR 2013 | 285992 | Biography | Available | - |