The heart of everything that is : the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781451654660 (hardcover)
- 9781451654684 (pbk.)
- 978.004/9752 B 23
- E99.O3 R3725 2013
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 978.004 DRU | Available | 069276 |
Includes bibliographical references (page 369-397) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE PRAIRIE -- 1.First Contact -- 2.Guns and Badlands -- 3.The Black Hills and Beyond -- 4."Red Cloud Comes!" -- 5.Counting Coup -- 6."Print the Legend" -- pt. II THE INVASION -- 7.Old Gabe -- 8.The Glory Road -- 9.Pretty Owl and Pine Leaf -- 10.A Blood-Tinged Season -- 11.A Lone Stranger -- 12.Samuel Colt's Invention -- 13.A Brief Respite -- 14.The Dakotas Rise -- pt. III THE RESISTANCE -- 15.Strong Hearts -- 16.An Army in Shambles -- 17.Blood on the Ice -- 18.The Great Escape -- 19.Bloody Bridge Station -- 20.The Hunt for Red Cloud -- 21.Burn the Bodies; Eat the Horses -- pt. IV THE WAR -- 22.War Is Peace -- 23.Big Bellies and Shirt Wearers -- 24.Colonel Carrington's Circus -- 25.Here Be Monsters -- 26.The Perfect Fort -- 27."Mercifully Kill All the Wounded" -- 28.Roughing It -- 29.A Thin Blue Line -- 30.Fire in the Belly -- 31.High Plains Drifters -- pt. V THE MASSACRE -- 32.Fetterman -- 33.Dress Rehearsal -- 34.Soldiers in Both Hands --
Contents note continued: 35.The Half-Man's Omen -- 36.Broken Arrows -- 37."Like Hogs Brought to Market" -- 38.Fear and Mourning.
In the bestselling tradition of "Empire of the Summer Moon," this is the untold story of Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian commander of the Plains who witnessed the opening of the West.The great Oglala Sioux chief Red Cloud was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him. At the peak of their chief's powers, the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States. But unlike Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, or Geronimo, the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, his incredible story can finally be told. Born in 1821 in what is now Nebraska, Red Cloud grew up an orphan who overcame myriad social disadvantages to advance in Sioux culture. Through fearless raids against neighboring tribes, like the Crow and Pawnee, he acquired a reputation as the best leader of his fellow warriors, catapulting him into the Sioux elite--and preparing him for the epic struggle his nation would face with an expanding United States. Drawing on a wealth of evidence that includes Red Cloud's 134-page autobiography, lost for nearly a hundred years, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin bring their subject to life again in a narrative that climaxes with Red Cloud's War--a conflict whose massacres presaged the Little Bighorn and ensured Red Cloud's place in the pantheon of Native American legends.
Adult.
