The Heart of Everything That Is: Young Readers Edition
Bob Drury · Tom Clavin
Feb 2017 · Simon and Schuster
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From bestselling authors Bob Drury and Tom Clavin comes the epic, untold story one of the most powerful Sioux warriors of all time, Red Cloud—now adapted for a younger audience!
“I have but a small spot of land left. The Great Spirit told me to keep it.” —Red Cloud
This young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller of the same name tells the long forgotten story of the powerful Oglala Lakota chief, Red Cloud. At the height of Red Cloud’s power the Sioux claimed control of vast parts of the west. But as the United States rapidly expanded, the country brutally forced the Indians off their lands.
Fighting for the survival of the Sioux way of life, Red Cloud successfully secured the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters, including Crazy Horse, and is the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war.
Thanks to the rediscovery of Red Cloud’s long-lost autobiography, and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, and with the help of a world-class adapter, the story of the nineteenth century’s most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told.
“I have but a small spot of land left. The Great Spirit told me to keep it.” —Red Cloud
This young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller of the same name tells the long forgotten story of the powerful Oglala Lakota chief, Red Cloud. At the height of Red Cloud’s power the Sioux claimed control of vast parts of the west. But as the United States rapidly expanded, the country brutally forced the Indians off their lands.
Fighting for the survival of the Sioux way of life, Red Cloud successfully secured the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters, including Crazy Horse, and is the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war.
Thanks to the rediscovery of Red Cloud’s long-lost autobiography, and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, and with the help of a world-class adapter, the story of the nineteenth century’s most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told.
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Medicine Wolf
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August 2, 2019
This is not an 'untold story', but in this book there is a grossly misleading and incorrect story. This is mainstream big publishing's worst. They quite literally made things up in this book. (I dare one of the authors or the publisher to challenge me to a live public debate!) They should be embarrassed. Not since Little House on the Prairie have the Lakota and Cheyenne been so misrepresented. This garbage belongs in the 1950's. I'm sorry, I meant the trash. Historically and anthropologically, this is the worst book of all the books on Red Cloud, Red Cloud's War and the struggle for the Bozeman and Powder River country available to buy. It is genuinely sad to so many of us life long historians, researchers and aficionados of this complex period to see something as blatantly lazy and false get pushed in the unknowing public's face. Every time I see it get top billing at a bookstore, I grab a coffee and hang around it until someone looks interested and then politely sharing my passion and credentials for the subject, I lead them to something with accuracy and integrity. Trust me, NO ONE who knows the Plains Wars would recommend this book. What would someone like myself recommend? What would a room full of authors, researchers and anthropologists dedicated to the Plains Wars recommend to someone who doesn't know the story of Red Cloud and the war named after him? -Red Cloud's War: The Bozeman Trail, 1866-1868 (2 Volume Set), John D. McDermott -Red Cloud's Folk: A History of the Oglala Sioux Indians, George E. Hyde -Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth, John H. Monnett
About the author
Bob Drury is the author/coauthor/editor of nine books. He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Men’s Journal, and GQ. He is currently a contributing editor and foreign correspondent for Men’s Health. He lives in Manasquan, New Jersey.
Tom Clavin is the author or coauthor of sixteen books. For fifteen years he wrote for The New York Times and has contributed to such magazines as Golf, Men’s Journal, Parade, Reader’s Digest, and Smithsonian. He is currently the investigative features correspondent for Manhattan Magazine. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
Tom Clavin is the author or coauthor of sixteen books. For fifteen years he wrote for The New York Times and has contributed to such magazines as Golf, Men’s Journal, Parade, Reader’s Digest, and Smithsonian. He is currently the investigative features correspondent for Manhattan Magazine. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
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