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Fast-paced and highly absorbing. &#8212Wal Street JournalA
magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the
two most legendary and consequential American Indian
leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led
Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the Indian
Wars.Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic,
their significance in American history undeniable. Together,
these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a
revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong
Custer&#8217vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendary
victory at the Little Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of their
rich and complex lives. Now, based on years of research and
drawing on a wealth of previously ignored primary sources,

award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner delivers the definitive
chronicle, thrillingly told, of these extraordinary Indigenous
leaders.Both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were born and grew
to manhood on the High Plains of the American West, in an
era when vast herds of buffalo covered the earth, and when
their nomadic people could move freely, following the buffalo
and lording their fighting prowess over rival Indian nations. But
as idyllic as this life seemed to be, neither man had known a
time without whites. Fur traders and government explorers
were the first to penetrate Sioux lands, but they were soon
followed by a flood of white intruders: Oregon-California Trail
travelers, gold seekers, railroad men, settlers, town
builders&#8212an Bluecoats. The buffalo population
plummeted, disease spread by the white man decimated
villages, and conflicts with the interlopers increased.On June
25, 1876, in the valley of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull, and the warriors who were inspired to follow them,
fought the last stand of the Sioux, a fierce and proud nation
that had ruled the Great Plains for decades. It was their
greatest victory, but it was also the beginning of the end for
their treasured and sacred way of life. And in the years to
come, both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defiant to the end,
would meet violent&#8212an eerily similar&#8212faes.An
essential new addition to the canon of Indigenous American
history and literature of the West, The Earth Is All That Lasts is
a grand saga, both triumphant and tragic, of two fascinating
and heroic leaders struggling to maintain the freedom of their
people against impossible odds.