Red Cloud: The Greatest Warrior Chief of the West: The Greatest Warrior Chief of the American West - Hardcover

Bob Drury; Tom Clavin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849546320 ISBN 13: 9781849546324

Publisher: Robson Press, 2013

Synopsis

He was the only Native American chief to defeat the United States Army in a war. A renowned and respected leader in the vicious, bloody clashes for control over land in the Great Plains of the American West, his name came to represent the conflict itself: Red Cloud's War. The fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured, despite his staggering achievements. He was born in 1821 and advanced in Sioux culture as a warrior and leader through fearless raids against neighboring tribes, preparing him for the epic struggle his nation would face with an expanding United States. This is a story as big as the West, including portraits of General William Tecumseh Sherman, explorer John Bozeman, mountain man Jim Bridger, Red Cloud protégé Crazy Horse, and many others. It is a story about the birth of America as we know it today. Drawing on a wealth of evidence that includes Red Cloud's 134-page autobiography, lost for nearly a hundred years, award-winning authors Bob Drury and Tom Clavin bring their subject to life again in a gripping narrative that places you at the center of the conflict over western expansion. Red Cloud finally gives the nation s greatest war leader and Native American legend the modern-day recognition he deserves.

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Product Description:

Less famous than his protege Crazy Horse or Sitting Bull, Red Cloud was nevertheless one of the most significant leaders of the Indian Wars. Drawing on his own account of his life (a manuscript neglected for many years), this biography chronicles the Chief of the Oglala Lakota's achievements, from raids against neighbouring tribes and victory against the US Army in 'Red Cloud's War' to later political fights for his people as they were resettled in reservations.

Review:

The word 'epic' is overused these days. Not here.This is big, blazing history, writ large on the High Plains. --S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon

An absorbing and evocative examination of the endgame in the three-hundred-year war between Native Americans and settlers of European descent. --Charles Frazier, National Book Award-winning author of Cold Mountain

Clavin and Drury spin us a ripping, though at times gruesome, tale full of adventure. --Liberator

About this edition

• Publisher: Robson Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849546320
• ISBN 13: 9781849546324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432