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In the best-selling traditions of Empire of the Summer Moon, this is actually the untold story of Red Cloud, the most effective Indian commander of the Plains who witnessed the beginning of the Western. The fantastic Oglala Sioux key Red Cloud was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a warfare, forcing the American federal government to sue for calmness in a discord named for him. At the peak of these chief's powers, the Sioux could state control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States. But unlike Relaxing Bull, Crazy Equine, or Geronimo, the fog of record has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, because of painstaking research by two award-winning writers, his incredible story can finally find out. Blessed in 1821 in what is now Nebraska, Red Cloud grew up an orphan who overcame myriad interpersonal disadvantages to boost in Sioux culture. Through fearless raids against neighboring tribes, like the Crow and Pawnee, he bought a reputation as the best leader of his fellow warriors, catapulting him into the Sioux top notch - and preparing him for the epic struggle his nation would face with an expanding United States. Drawing on a wealth of evidence that includes Red Cloud's 134-site autobiography, lost for almost a hundred years, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin bring their subject to life again in a narrative that climaxes with Red Cloud's Battle - a discord whose massacres presaged the Little Bighorn and ensured Red Cloud's devote the pantheon of Indigenous American legends. A story as big as the Western, with portraits of Basic William Tecumsah Sherman, explorer John Bozeman, mountain man Jim Bridger, Red Cloud protégé Crazy Equine, and many more, The Heart of Everything That Is not only places you at the guts of the discord over western development, but finally provides our nation's most significant Indian war leader the modern-day recognition he deserves.
