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The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West Trade paperback - 2017

by Cozzens, Peter

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New York: Vintage Books, 2017. Trade Paperback. Good. 6x1x9. Seventh printing. Remainder mark, spine base bumped, edge wear. 2017 Trade Paperback. xxi, 544 pp. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.
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  • Title The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
  • Author Cozzens, Peter
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Books, New York
  • Date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2336777
  • ISBN 9780307948182 / 0307948188
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects History, West (U.S.) - History - 1860-1890
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017448712
  • Dewey Decimal Code 978.02

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PETER COZZENS is the author or editor of seventeen acclaimed books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize. In 2002 he was awarded the American Foreign Service Association's highest honor, the William R. Rivkin Award, given annually to one Foreign Service Officer for exemplary moral courage, integrity, and creative dissent.

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