"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" 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
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