Red Cloud's War - Resistance and Victory by the Sioux Nation
In the summer and fall of 1866, legendary Lakota Sioux's great warrior-chief Red Cloud courageously rallied his forces against encroaching white settlers and the U.S. cavalry . Bob Drury's "The Heart of Everything That Is" vividly brings to life this dramatic and mostly forgotten confrontation and heroic Sioux victory predating later events at Little Big Horn.
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The Heart of Everything That Is
, by Bob Drury ( 2013 - 432pp)
A masterpiece of Western history. Gripping, account of the rise of Red Cloud as leader of the Sioux nation, his guerrilla war and the Army's great defeat in the Fetterman Massacre ( 2013 - 432pp)
Great book on the Lakota Sioux and the history of tribes who tried to band together to save their old ways. Learned a lot about Red Cloud…a very proud and smart guy…