The heart of everything that is : the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend

The heart of everything that is : the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Drury, Bob (Author), Clavin, Thomas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2014.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
Red Cloud, > 1822-1909.
Oglala Indians > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Red Cloud's War, 1866-1867.
Oglala Indians > Government relations.
Oglala Indians > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I, The prairie: First contact
  • Guns and badlands
  • The Black Hills and beyond
  • "Red Cloud comes!"
  • Counting coup
  • "Print the legend"
  • Part II, The invasion: Old Gabe
  • The glory road
  • Pretty Owl and Pine Leaf
  • A blood-tinged season
  • A lone stranger
  • Samuel Colt's invention
  • A brief respite
  • The Dakotas rise
  • Part III, The resistance: Strong hearts
  • An army in shambles
  • Blood on the ice
  • The great escape
  • Bloody bridge station
  • The hunt for Red Cloud
  • Burn the bodies; eat the horses
  • Part IV, The war: War is peace
  • Big bellies and shirt wearers
  • Colonel Carrington's circus
  • Here be monsters
  • The perfect fort
  • "Mercifully kill all the wounded"
  • Roughing it
  • A thin blue line
  • Fire in the belly
  • High plains drifters
  • Part V, The massacre: Fetterman
  • Dress rehearsal
  • Soldiers in both hands
  • The half-man's omen
  • Broken arrows
  • "Like hogs brought to market"
  • Fear and mourning
  • Epilogue.

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