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

Call Number

  • 978.00497 G223 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Boston : Mariner Books, [2022]

Physical Description

xiv, 543 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color), map ; 24 cm

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.

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

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.

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