The Earth is weeping : the epic story of the Indian wars for the American West / Peter Cozzens.

"With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the eme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cozzens, Peter, 1957- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Wars > 1866-1895.
West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890.
Indians of North America > Wars.
West United States.
HISTORY / Military / United States.
HISTORY / Native American.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
1860-1895
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxi, 544 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Epic story of the Indian wars for the American West
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Our children sometimes behave badly
  • The plains aflame
  • Red Cloud's War
  • Warrior and soldier
  • Hancock's War
  • The last treaty
  • Of Garryowen in glory
  • The bloody policy of peace
  • Tragedy in the Lava Beds
  • The Buffalo War
  • No rest, no peace
  • Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
  • The Thieves' Road
  • Guard us against all misfortune
  • Last Stand
  • The Great Father's fury
  • A warrior I have been
  • I will fight no more forever
  • The Utes must go!
  • Return to Apacheria
  • Like so many vultures, greedy for blood
  • Once I moved like the wind
  • A clash of visions
  • The place of the big killings.