The Earth Is Weeping

The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

De: Peter Cozzens

Narrado por: John Pruden

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.

©2016 Peter Cozzens (P)2016 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Good Book!

Very relevant and interesting read, especially considering today's events at Standing Rock. This is a history involving atrocities on both sides that everyone should know and learn from.

Entertaining and informational

I enjoyed listening and had no problem with the narrator or keeping up with his time machine jumps.. which are many.

A tragedy of the west

Notable for the genocide of a people who were killed, cheated, and exterminated by the western movement of greed. This book is a sad testament to the history of the United States.

Some are more shameful than others.

This book fills your knowledge gaps with a fire hose of information. It brings balance and knowledge to a subject not even addressed in American schools. It is one of those books that make you stop, think, back-up, listen again, and then say "They really did that?"

Balanced Approach

Cozzens has done an admirable job of balancing the narrative of a controversial page American history. I still consider Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee required reading, but this book surely helps to put faces on the participants. I wish the Navajo Long Walk had been included, but I would still without hesitation recommend this book.

Informative, brutal and exciting

Absolutely fantastic audiobook, flew by. I not only learned a heck of lot about a subject I was deficient in but I was excited the entire time. Cross between a history book and an ultra violent war/action movie. Could not recommend it more.

solid military history

mediocre narration. not some bias account like other reviews suggest. It's a good military history of the Indian wars.

A truly excellent history of the American Indian conflicts

This book is a well researched history of the various American Indians conflicts. It lays out what happened and how it happened in precise detail.

Wonderful

Fantastic read, learned a lot heartbreaking!! Should be a required read at schools. Gets a lot of the false history we were told right.

An Nuanced, Riveting History of the Indian Wars

I came wanting a nuanced history of the Indian wars. I got all that and so much more. Thrilling from start to finish, deep in it's complexity, and uncompromising in it's stark portrayal of the conflicts that arouse between Indians, pioneering whites, and the US government, this book succeeds in breaking down the often mystified conquering of the West into it's more human elements. Highly recommended for readers who want a holistic approach to this complex chapter in American history.