The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

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A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate of the West.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 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. New Download The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West [ By ] Peter Cozzens [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr It was the fourth day after Christmas in the Year of Our Lord 1890 When the first torn and bleeding bodies were carried into the candlelit church, those who were conscious could see Christmas greenery hanging from the open rafters Across the chancel front above the pulpit was strung a crudely lettered banner PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO MEN closing lines of Dee Brown s Bury my Heart at Wounded KneePeter Cozzens The Earth is Weeping is one of the finest books on the Indian Wars I ve ever re It was the fourth day after Christmas in the Year of Our Lord 1890 When the first torn and bleeding bodies were carried into the candlelit church, those who were conscious could see Christmas greenery hanging from the open raf...In the past few years I have read several books dealing with individual Native Americans or with some of the theaters of operation in the conflicts with native Americans Most of these books were excellent but this book offers the most comprehensive recitation of the events occurring during the decades long struggles between the Indians and the encroachment of whit...When I was young, THE book to read on the various American Indian wars was Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee An Indian History of the American West Everyone read it It was one of those rare books that come along at point in history 1970, Vietnam, general civil unrest that captures the imagination of an entire country It was time and place thing Peter Cozzens, in his prologue, while acknowled...this book starts out with a statement from the author that suggests that the book Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee has been the only substantial book about Indian history for many years But he asserts that book was told solely from the point of view of the Indian and is thus biased His book on the other hand has used primary source material that allows him to present native American historyaccurately The last quarter of this book is footnotes making it clear he has tried to back up his cla this book starts out with a statement from the author that suggests that the book Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee has been the only substantial book about Indian history for many years But he asserts that book was told solely from the point of view of the Indian and is thus biased His book on the other hand has used prima...The Earth Is Weeping offers an almost painfully even handed look at the conflicts between the United States and American Indian tribes after the Civil War Of course, given the historiography of the past fifty years, an even handed look necessarily inverts the traditional narrative Here, Team Indian does good and bad, and Team White does good and bad, each according to its own internal dictates of morality and external dictates of practicality and need The Sioux are expe...The current narrative of the Indian Wars is one where evil whites come and take the land from helpless Indians Cozzens disagrees with the overall structure of this interpretation, while never doubting that America was certainly in the wrong These were mostly wars of conquest His goal here is give us the complications in that narrative that ultimately make it a story with muchpathos and tragedy, a welcome thing in our Manichean age Considering what I have seen in Cozzens other books, t The current narrative of the Indian Wars is one where evil whites come and take the land from helpless Indians Cozzens disagrees with the overall structure of this interpretation, while never doubting that America was certainly in the wrong These were mostly wars of conquest His goal here is give us the complications in that narrative that ultimately make it a story with muc...Late in Peter Cozzens s The Earth is Weeping The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, a passage describes how Sitting Bull after having traveled the country with Buffalo Bill Cody s Wild West show in 1885 sought to debunk the notion that all white men universally worshiped the Great Father the Indian name for whoever was the U.S President First, Sitting Bull set his people straight on the Great Father The agents had lied white men did not hold the Great Father sacred On Late in Peter Cozzens s The Earth is Weeping The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, a passage describes how Sitting Bull after having traveled the country with Buffalo Bill Cody s Wild West show in 1885 sought to debunk the notion that all white men universally worshiped the Great Father the Indian name for whoever was the U.S President First, Sitting Bull set his people straight on the Great Father...Four stars means I really liked it, which is hard to reconcile with a narrative that reads like an opening of many raw, festering wounds The eye and the mind strain to examine too directly and too long this repetitive chronicle of avarice and deception, bloodshed and misery While the events of the various conflicts and lives of the relevant participants are thoroughly and astutely detailed, the author does not expressly identify the central disturbing irony of so titled Indian Wars, which is Four stars means I really liked it, which is hard to reconcile with a narrative that reads like an opening of many raw, festering wounds The eye and the mind strain to examine too directly and too long this repetitive chronicle of avarice and deception, bloodshed and misery While the events of the various conflicts and lives of the relevant participants are thoroughly and astutely detailed, the author does not expressly identify the central disturbing irony of so titled Indian Wars, which is that those wars occurred immediately following a conflict intended to re unify a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and resulted in depriving the original Americans of life, liberty and the pursuit o...Cozzens, a veteran Civil War historian, turns his attentions to America s bloody twilight wars against Native Americans between 1865 and 1890 It s the tragic stuff of legends, movies and a million history works, yet Cozzens manages to make the familiar topic fresh and invigorating again He crisply recounts battles and personalities both familiar Custer s Last Stand, Geronimo s Apache terror campaign and obscure California s Modoc War, the extirpation of the Utes while offering often penetr Cozzens, a veteran Civil War historian, turns his attentions to America s bloody twilight wars against Native Americans between 1865 and 1890 It s the tragic stuff ...A brilliant book This book was a page turner from beginning to end, and was an easy read for somebody not very well versed in the history that it discusses Cozzens has the gift of being able to beautiful illustrate the history he describes, whether that be terse negotiations or all out battles, and it makes the book a compelling one It depicts the Indian Wars in intimate detail and seems to miss out very little The book is also very fact driven but also tells an evenhanded story, both depict A brilliant book This bo...

The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
  • English
  • 08 June 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 544 pages
  • 0307958043
  • Peter Cozzens
  • The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West