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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse,Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the GreatSioux NationCOPY LINK IN DESCRIPTIONTO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOKCopy Link >> https://getpdf.readbooks.link/yupu/B09CQ2QL8RFast-paced and highly absorbing. &#8212Wal Street JournalAmagisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, thetwo most legendary and consequential American Indianleaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and ledSioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the IndianWars.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 arevered holy man, crushed George ArmstrongCuster&#8217vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendaryvictory at the Little Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of theirrich and complex lives. Now, based on years of research anddrawing on a wealth of previously ignored primary sources,
award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner delivers the definitivechronicle, thrillingly told, of these extraordinary Indigenousleaders.Both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were born and grewto manhood on the High Plains of the American West, in anera when vast herds of buffalo covered the earth, and whentheir nomadic people could move freely, following the buffaloand lording their fighting prowess over rival Indian nations. Butas idyllic as this life seemed to be, neither man had known atime without whites. Fur traders and government explorerswere the first to penetrate Sioux lands, but they were soonfollowed by a flood of white intruders: Oregon-California Trailtravelers, gold seekers, railroad men, settlers, townbuilders&#8212an Bluecoats. The buffalo populationplummeted, disease spread by the white man decimatedvillages, and conflicts with the interlopers increased.On June25, 1876, in the valley of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse andSitting Bull, and the warriors who were inspired to follow them,fought the last stand of the Sioux, a fierce and proud nationthat had ruled the Great Plains for decades. It was theirgreatest victory, but it was also the beginning of the end fortheir treasured and sacred way of life. And in the years tocome, both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defiant to the end,would meet violent&#8212an eerily similar&#8212faes.Anessential new addition to the canon of Indigenous Americanhistory and literature of the West, The Earth Is All That Lasts isa grand saga, both triumphant and tragic, of two fascinatingand heroic leaders struggling to maintain the freedom of theirpeople against impossible odds.

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