Product Description
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 emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment experienced by the tribes and the tribal conflicts over whether to fight or make peace, and explores the squalid lives of soldiers posted to the frontier and the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. As the action moves from Kansas and Nebraska to the Southwestern desert to the Dakotas and the Pacific Northwest, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud. For the first time The Earth Is Weeping brings them all together in the fullest account to date of how the West was won.
Reviews/Praise
"The audiobook aims to present a rare balanced view of one of the most unpleasant eras in U.S. history, and succeeds . . . Pruden keeps listeners engaged." —AudioFile
"This is a beautifully written work of understanding and compassion that will be a treasure for both general readers and specialists." —Booklist Starred Review
"Cozzens admirably succeeds in framing the Indian Wars with acute historical accuracy." —New York Times
"Highly recommended for the intertwined history of Native Americans and the post-Civil War frontier U.A. Army." —Library Journal
"A moving narrative, substantial documentation, and even-handed analyses explain why The Earth Is Weeping is the most lucid and reliable history of the Indian Wars in recent memory." —Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture
"There is much wisdom here, and much good writing." —S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon
"An elegantly written narrative of one of the great sagas in American history, and better than Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." —James Donovan, author of A Terrible Glory
"[T]he most comprehensive, insightful synthesis of the conflict between the Western tribes and the United States government and citizens published by a popular New York press in decades." —True West Magazine
"A striking and thorough explanation." —Big Sky Journal
"An evenhanded and smoothly written volume that is no less ambitious in scope than Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." —The American Scholar