The Earth is Weeping, Peter Cozzens
The Earth is Weeping, Peter Cozzens
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The Earth is Weeping
The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

Author: Peter Cozzens

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 18 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2016

Synopsis

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 more 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on March 06, 2021

Much has been written and spoken about the slavery problem in the history of the United States. But to me, in my opinion, the problem of what to do about the Native American Indian was by far the most insoluble dilemma. Four years in writing, this award-winning book is an excellent account of the bru......more

Goodreads review by Charlie Parker on January 10, 2024

La tierra llora «No ha habido nunca un hombre blanco que no odiara a los indios, y no ha habido nunca un verdadero indio que no odiara al hombre blanco» Toro Sentado. Libro sobre el desalojo de los indios americanos de las tierras donde habitaban. Las guerras indias del oeste americano ocuparon buena......more

Goodreads review by Diamond on March 28, 2022

This is a great book of the plite of the Native American peoples. It gives a very simpathetic look at how the Native Americans were treated. I recommend this book to all.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 26, 2017

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 o......more

Goodreads review by Tim on January 16, 2023

In a nutshell this is a considerably less moving version of Bury My heart at Wounded Knee. Early on the author disparages Dee Brown's book for making no effort at offering a historical balance. Though there is some truth in this statement it's a statement you can make about any individual historical......more

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