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Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Prize
Bringing together 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, The Earth is Weepinglauded by Booklist as a beautifully written work of understanding and compassionis the fullest account to date of how the West was wonand lost.
[S]ets a new standard for Western Indian Wars history... Stuart Rosebrook, True West Magazine
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.
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ALSO BY PETER COZZENS
Battlefields of the Civil War
Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jacksons Valley Campaign
The Army and the Indian. vol. 5 of Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 18651890
The Long War for the Northern Plains. vol. 4 of Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 18651890
Conquering the Southern Plains. vol. 3 of Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 18651890
The Wars for the Pacific Northwest. vol. 2 of Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 18651890
The Struggle for Apacheria. vol. 1 of Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 18651890
The New Annals of the Civil War (editor, with Robert I. Girardi)
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 6 (editor)
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 5 (editor)
General John Pope: A Life for the Nation
The Military Memoirs of General John Pope (editor, with Robert I. Girardi)
The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth
The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga
This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga
No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright 2016 by Peter Cozzens
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Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Limited, Toronto.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cozzens, Peter, [date] author.
Title: The earth is weeping : the epic story of the Indian wars for the American West / by Peter Cozzens.
Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. | This is a Borzoi Book. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015044077 | ISBN 9780307958044 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780307958051 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : Indians of North AmericaWars18661895. | West (U.S.)History18601890.
Classification: LCC E 83.866 . C 69 2016 | DDC 978/.02dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015044077
Ebook ISBN9780307958051
Maps by Mapping Specialists, Ltd.
Cover art: The March of the Sioux by Edward S. Curtis. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Cover design by Stephanie Ross
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For Antonia
If the lands of the white man are taken, civilization justifies him in resisting the invader. Civilization does more than this: it brands him a coward and a slave if he submits to the wrong. If the savage resists, civilization, with the Ten Commandments in one hand and the sword in the other, demands his immediate extermination.
Report of the Indian Peace Commissioners, 1868
I remember that the white men were coming to fight us and take away our land, and I thought it was not right. We are humans too and God created us all alike, and I was going to do the best I could to defend my nation. So I started on the warpath when I was sixteen years old.
FIRE THUNDER, CHEYENNE WARRIOR
We have heard much talk of the treachery of the Indian. In treachery, broken pledges on the part of high officials, lies, thievery, slaughter of defenseless women and children, and every crime in the catalogue of mans inhumanity to man the Indian was a mere amateur compared to the noble white man.
LIEUTENANT BRITTON DAVIS, U.S. ARMY
Tribes of the American West, 1866
The Northern Plains
The Southern Plains
Apacheria
Red Clouds War, 18661868
Sheridans 18681869 Campaign
The Modoc War, 18721873
The Red River War, 18741875
Crooks Tonto Basin Campaign, 18721873
The Yellowstone and Black Hills Expeditions, 18731874
The Little Bighorn Campaign, MayJune 1876
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876
Closing Out the Great Sioux War, July 1876May 1877
The Cheyennes, November 1876January 1879
The Nez Perce War, 1877
The Ute War, 1879
The Sierra Madre, 18831886
Lakota Reservations and Army Deployment, NovemberDecember 1890
Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890
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1862 AUGUSTDECEMBER Dakota (Sioux) Uprising, Minnesota.
1864 NOVEMBER 29 Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado.
1865 JUNE 27 General Sherman assumes command of the Military Division of the Missouri.
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