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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend Paperback – September 2, 2014

by Bob Drury (Author), Tom Clavin (Author)
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This acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe).

Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud’s powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to the rediscovery of a lost autobiography, and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the nineteenth century’s most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told.

In this astonishing untold story of the American West, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin restore Red Cloud to his rightful place in American history in a sweeping and dramatic narrative based on years of primary research. As they trace the events leading to Red Cloud’s War, they provide intimate portraits of the many lives Red Cloud touched—mountain men such as Jim Bridger; US generals like William Tecumseh Sherman, who were charged with annihilating the Sioux; fearless explorers, such as the dashing John Bozeman; and the memorable warriors whom Red Cloud groomed, like the legendary Crazy Horse. And at the center of the story is Red Cloud, fighting for the very existence of the Indian way of life.

“Unabashed, unbiased, and disturbingly honest, leaving no razor-sharp arrowhead unturned, no rifle trigger unpulled....a compelling and fiery narrative” (USA TODAY), this is the definitive chronicle of the conflict between an expanding white civilization and the Plains Indians who stood in its way.
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  1. The four pillars of Sioux leadership—acknowledged by the tribe to this day—are bravery, fortitude, generosity, and wisdom.
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  2. The Sioux regarded the universe as a living and breathing—if mysterious—being. And though they recognized the passage of time as measured by the predictable movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars, to their eyes mankind was but a flickering flame in a strong wind; and their concepts of past, present, and future were blurred so that all three existed simultaneously, on separate planes.
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  3. To the Sioux, war was the reason for living, and though their raids and ambushes were of course made to establish territory and gain booty, more important was the chance for an individual warrior to give vent, in public, to an aggressiveness prized by the tribe’s ethos.
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“A ripping yarn . . . A quintessentially Western tale of bold exploits, tough characters, brutal conditions and a lost way of life, this sounds like the sort of story that practically tells itself. Yet you only realize how little justice most popular histories do to their source material when you come across a book, like this one, that does everything right. It’s customary to say of certain nonfiction books — gussied up with plenty of 'color' and psychological speculation — that they 'read like a novel,' but truth be told, most of the time we’d have to be talking about a pretty mediocre novel. The Heart of Everything That Is, on the other hand, resembles the good ones. There were times, turning its pages, when I could almost smell the pines of the Black Hills, feel the icy wind tearing down from Canada across the prairie and hear the hooves of the buffalo pounding the earth.” -- Laura Miller ― Salon

“Exquisitely told . . . Remarkably detailed . . . The story of Red Cloud's unusual guile and strategic genius makes the better-known Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse pale in comparison. . . . This is no knee-jerk history about how the West was won, or how the West was lost. This historical chronicle is unabashed, unbiased and disturbingly honest, leaving no razor-sharp arrowhead unturned, no rifle trigger unpulled. . . . A compelling and fiery narrative.” ― USA Today

“Vivid . . . Lively . . . A tale of lies, trickery, and brutal slaughter . . . In telling the story of Red Cloud, Messrs. Drury and Clavin appropriately bring a number of the larger-than-life figures from that time onstage . . . [and] chronicle in considerable detail the shameful treatment of the Indians across the plains and the destruction of their ancient way of life.” ― Christopher Corbett, The Wall Street Journal

“A page turner . . . Drawing on archives, letters, and a long-lost autobiography written toward the end of Red Cloud’s life, the narrative has a remarkable immediacy . . . [and] the narrative sweep of a great Western.” ― Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe

“Valuable . . . Meticulous . . . [A] remarkable story . . . The writers don’t shy away from the atrocities on both sides of the gruesome, long-running conflict between the Indians and the U.S. forces. But when, for the umpteenth time, U.S. officials break a contract as soon as the glint of gold is spotted in the hills, one cannot help but feel that there’s all the more reason to celebrate one of the Sioux’s most impressive fighters.” ― Smithsonian

“The authors paint a full and vivid picture of the Oglala Sioux leader . . . The story of Red Cloud is presented here with all the tension and excitement of a good Western novel. . . . The narrative is gripping but not sentimental, and it is well-sourced, drawing, for example, on Red Cloud’s autobiography, lost for nearly a century, and the papers of many others who knew Red Cloud’s War.” ― Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Astounding . . . A tour de force of historical storytelling . . . The Heart of Everything That Is is grand in scope and beautifully observed. . . . Together, [Drury and Clavin] have managed a feat of scholarship that interweaves ethnological brilliance and an insightful reinterpretation of Indian culture from the point of view of the Sioux.” ― The Wichita Eagle

About the Author

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin are the New York Times bestselling authors of Halsey’s Typhoon, Last Men Out, and The Last Stand of Fox Company, which won the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s 2010 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for nonfiction. They live in Manasquan, New Jersey, and Sag Harbor, New York, respectively.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1451654685
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (September 2, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781451654684
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1451654684
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1210L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches
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    The New York Times bestselling author Bob Drury is the recipient of several national journalism awards as well as a three-time National Magazine Award finalist for his reporting from Belfast, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Darfur among other earthly Edens. His books include THE RESCUE SEASON, A DOG'S GIFT, and, with co-author Tom Clavin, THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT IS, HALSEY'S TYPHOON, VALLEY FORGE, BLOOD AND TREASURE, THE LAST HILL and THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY, for which he received the U.S. Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene, Jr. Award.

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    TOM CLAVIN, whose most recent book is FOLLOW ME TO HELL, is a bestselling author who has worked as a newspaper and web site editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times covering entertainment, sports, and the environment. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. Six of his books have been New York Times best sellers: THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT IS, DODGE CITY, HALSEY'S TYPHOON, THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY, BLOOD AND TREASURE, and FOLLOW ME TO HELL. Other books that have received popular and critical acclaim include TOMBSTONE, WILD BILL, ALL BLOOD RUNS RED, TO THE UTTERMOST ENDS OF THE EARTH, THE LAST HILL, and LIGHTNING DOWN. Tom is also a nationally syndicated columnist and "The Overlook" can be found at tomclavin.substack.com. His next book, THE LAST OUTLAWS, will be published on November 7 by St. Martin's Press. For more information, go to tomclavin.com

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The book will introduce you to the complete badass that was Red Cloud, a warrior and leader of the Sioux who waged a war against the United States, and won. His battle prowess was in his ability to fight, but most of all, it was the discipline he was able to instill within his warriors and the astonishing effectiveness in the execution of his strategy.The writing is wonderfully dense, filled with meaningful quotes from ranking officers of the time, transcripts from congressional hearings, and illustrative narration of the initial hunt for Red Cloud's band, and the ensuing battles between the two nations. It can be dry, as the facts here often deal with the movements of soldiers from garrison to garrison, their duties within the fort, or the comings-and-goings of traveling settlers; however, it is never boring and those descriptions are pivotal to understanding the nature of US Government's mentality in the early West.Highly recommend the book.
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JOHN ALBERTINI
5.0 out of 5 stars A very interesting and educational story .
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024
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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud , An American Legend was a great story of just how things were back in the 1800’s . The authors of this book kept me reading and reading . I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about life out west in the 1800’s .
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Trainman95630
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book about a less well known Indian
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2015
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This was a very good book recounting the life of Red Cloud , the only Indian chief to ever successfully wage a war against the US government. The book covers his entire life from the death of his alcoholic father and the subsequent childhood raised by the Ogalala branch of the Sioux tribe that his mother hailed from.

His success was due to his ability to have the different branches of the Sioux tribe and other tribes (Cheyenne and Arapaho) work together to keep the white people out of one the last remaining hunting grounds of the Sioux people (Powder River Basin) As civilization began to encroach on their traditional homelands, the tribe was forced into smaller and smaller areas farther west . Things came to a head when the Bozeman trail was built in Wyoming to allow easier and quicker access to the Montana gold strikes. This road was going to bring an end to the Indian's way of life and Red Cloud was able to launch a successful guerilla war campaign against the travellers on the trail and the calvary troops assigned to protect it. The high point was the so called "Fetterman Massacre" known to the Sioux as the "battle of the hundred slain " in which the entire command (81 men) under Capt Fetterman were lured away from protecting a wood cutter detail and killed in a quick 30 minute battle.

After the Fetterman incident the campaign continued for another year but the government soon realized that it needed to make peace with Red Cloud and ended up closing the Bozeman trail and withdrawing from 3 forts built to protect it.

The book gives a good deal of attention to Red Cloud's army nemesis - Col Carrington, a civil war veteran who hadn't seen any action and his civil war battle hardened underling - Capt Fetterman. Additionally the book gives a great deal of insight into the history of the Sioux tribe from the 1600s. How the tribe was organized - 7 branches and the western Sioux had 7 sub tribes which we are familiar with as they formed the core of resistance to white civilization on the high plains. There are a couple of excellent chapters of what daily life was like as a member of the Sioux tribe , the rituals, the diet, the hunting techniques, the division of labor etc. All of it was very interesting. The final thing I liked about the book was that the author let you know geographic locations by their present day states. IE "the Lakota tribe emigrated west from Minnesota and spent many decades on the Missouri in present day South Dakota. For people that haven't travelled a lot in the US west it makes the story easier to understand . Also the maps provided , even in kindle for very friendly and easy to understand.
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Duane Putnam
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing Native American human to be in awl of and respected.
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I have a profound admiration and respect for this man who brought himself up through disadvantaged Heritage and cultural odds. The authors provided such incredible firsthand accounts of the situations that took place in that era. Some accounts so very gruesome, but yet honest. The white man’s hunger and lust for the western territory is so very shameful In the treatment of the native Americans. Anyone that loves history of our American West and its taking will undoubtedly want to read this book.
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Caddis Nymph, Western Massachusetts
5.0 out of 5 stars Actual history as exciting as watching every Western ever filmed
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2015
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I paid less than $3 for this terrific book!? Amazing. Okay, it's history, American history, but written by a couple of pros, ex-NYT writers and both with a number of other books under their belts. Reading this is as exciting as watching every Western ever filmed ... because it's the actual history on which (most) Westerns are based. "Lonesome Dove"? It's there, the drovers, their photos and how the guy who got his 4,000 steers from Texas to Bozeman, Montana before anyone else. Indian wars? You bet: Red Cloud was a brilliant strategist, the only American Indian who fought the United States government and won. Granted, the U.S. welched on the treaties they struck with him, but he shocked the military establishment by attacking more than one fort at a time, something the establishment thought was beyond the skill of an Indian "general" - the more fools they.

I just had to think of our current military, which has obviously assumed things about Iraqi and Afghani military forces and their civilian counterparts that just aren't true. That's obviously an old failing on the part of the U.S. military; they've been doing that for a long time. The Indian general, Red Cloud, the authors say, would have whipped both Union and Confederate armies with sheer brilliance in logistics and planning. The U.S. had just won the Civil War and I was surprised that many "U.S." soldiers sent to the West to put down Indian "uprisings' were former Confederate prisoners of war who had been forcibly conscripted into the U.S. Army. By "uprisings" I mean to say 'American Indians angry that the U.S. government expected them to keep the terms of treaties while the U.S. regularly broke and ignored the terms.

This is a terrific book and one I'm glad I stumbled across. Get it. Read it. You'll be glad you did.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I couldn't put this book down!
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023
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What a great job! Well written and so well thought out. These great leaders of a free nations came together to battle.
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Feli-Mar Barbero
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic book
Reviewed in Canada on December 9, 2023
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OYAMASENSEI
5.0 out of 5 stars Historia realista del único Jefe Sioux, que derrotó militarmente a USA
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ES UN LIBRO INTERESANTÍSIMO PARA PERSONAS INTERESADAS EN OTRA VERSIÓN HISTÓRICA NO HOLLYWOODENSE.
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sabitha .s.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story
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The book is written very vividly, sometimes very brutally, but gives you a realistic picture of what the american pioneers went through when they settled there. It does not gloss over details and you might think that some of it need not have been written, but the total picture that it gives is an unforgettable one. You are particularly happy with the characterization of the hero
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ce livre reprend l autobiographie au complète de red cloud et y insère des éléments nouveau sur la guerre de 1866 -1868 mais s arrête a la paix signée avec red cloud a fort Laramie et ne poursuit pas le reste de sa vie et est donc très incomplet ,il manque plus de 30 ans de la vie du célèbre bad face , pour complété ce livre je vous conseille le livre de george e hyde red cloud folk, ainsi que le livre de james olson: red cloud , il vous faut aussi le livre de robert larson : red cloud , ces 3 biographie sont essentiel et ce complète a merveille , acheté aussi sont autobiographie red cloud ogallala war chief
tous ces livres serait incomplet sans les ouvrages de crazy horse , ses biographies qui sont liées lisez crazy horse de mari sandoz et crazy horse de kingsley m bray
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