The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers With the Great Sioux War as background and context, drawing on many new materials as well as documents in libraries and archives, Powers recounts the final months and days of Crazy Horses life not to lay blame but to establish what happened. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramatic final months and days of Crazy Horses life. He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century, whose victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat ever inflicted on the frontier army. But after surrendering to federal troops, Crazy Horse was killed in custody for reasons which have been fiercely debated for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the story behind this official killing. Author Biography Thomas Powers is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and writer best known for his books on the history of intelligence organizations. Among them are Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda; Heisenbergs War: The Secret History of the German Bomb; and The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. The Killing of Crazy Horse won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history; the Western Writers of America Spur Award for historical nonfiction; and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the biography category. For most of the last decade Powers kept a 1984 Volvo at a nephews house in Colorado, which he drove on frequent trips to the northern Plains. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Candace. Review National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best History"Nothing short of a masterpiece. Complex and compelling, lurid and lyrical, tragic and transcendent from start to finish."—The Christian Science Monitor"Chilling and unforgettable. . . . A portrait done in the blood of the heartland, a heart still beating after all these years. Powers has given us a great book, a great painting of that still-beating heart."—The Washington Post"Richly textured. . . . Carefully and elegantly wrought. . . . Powers tells us much that is revealing and moving about the Sioux in their last days as free warriors."—The New York Times Book Review "A story rife with intrigue, rivalry, factionalism, jealousy and betrayal. Powers works through this maze with admirable insight. . . . The Killing of Crazy Horse will stand the test of time."—The Wall Street Journal "Superb. . . . An epic tale. . . . Powerss book reads like a fine historical novel, rich in important detail and fully formed minor characters, filled with felicitous summary of crucial information."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A skillfully written, meticulously researched book that covers far more than the chiefs final days and hours."—Chicago Tribune "Masterful. . . . A fascinating portrait of the great and mysterious Sioux war chief and of the pivotal era in hour history in which he lived and died. . . . [Powers] is not only an accomplished digger of facts but someone who understands that in matters of war and politics there are very few good—or bad—guys."—St. Petersburg Times "A compelling look into the politics and prejudices that shaped the era. . . . Evocative and evenhanded. . . . A rich and worthwhile read."—The Oregonian "Packed with hundreds of memorable characters, sharply drawn . . . an incredible mix of life that few books or movies present as well as this book does. . . . This is a masterful book, an epic read. Powers has repaid the Indians he found compelling and mysterious as a kid 60 years ago with this marvelous, well-told tale."—The Washington Times "Sophisticated and unsentimental. . . . [Powers] has crafted a masterful account of The Great Sioux Wars and solved a murder mystery."—Tulsa World "[A] landmark history. . . . A well-balanced account of the clash of cultures and civilizations. . . . Powers brings the characters to life better than any previous author. . . . What Powers has so masterfully portrayed is the political bickering within the Sioux nation and the U.S. Armys role in one of the most shameful episodes in American history."—Army Magazine "There is a sustained feeling of excitement throughout the book, a sense of the historians hunt. . . . Powers is determined to untie the knots, to find out how Crazy Horse really died and why."—Los Angeles Times "Tom Powerss masterpiece, long awaited and very worth the wait. Its one of the finest books yet written about the American West—dense with insight, filled with fascinating characters, including a fine portrait of the enigmatic warrior Crazy Horse. Anyone interested in the settlement of the West should hurry and buy it."—Larry McMurtry "Tremendous. . . . The Killing of Crazy Horse is one of the most moving and compassionate books on the Indian Wars published in some time."—The American Scholar "Never before has this story been told so masterfully."—True West Magazine "Lucid, controlled and compulsively readable. . . . A skillful synthesis of historical research and contested narrative, resonant with enduring loss."—Kirkus Reviews "Intricately structured and exhaustively researched, Thomas Powerss powerful narrative thrashes its way through the thickets of the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition to solve the conundrum of the killing of Crazy Horse. By giving equal weight to the Indian narrative, Powers gives the story the complexity it deserves."—Ted Morgan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent and A Shovel of Stars: The Making of the American West Review Quote National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best History "Nothing short of a masterpiece. Complex and compelling, lurid and lyrical, tragic and transcendent from start to finish." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Chilling and unforgettable. . . . A portrait done in the blood of the heartland, a heart still beating after all these years. Powers has given us a great book, a great painting of that still-beating heart." -- The Washington Post "Richly textured. . . . Carefully and elegantly wrought. . . . Powers tells us much that is revealing and moving about the Sioux in their last days as free warriors." -- The New York Times Book Review Excerpt from Book 1 " When we were young, all we thought about was going to war. " it was nearing midday on the shortest day of the year in 1866 when Indians attacked a detachment of soldiers sent out from Fort Phil Kearny in northern Wyoming to cut firewood for the post. The weather was mild and clear. A light powdering of recent snow lingered in the shadows of the hills. The Indians could not be seen from the fort itself, but a soldier stationed on a nearby hill signaled the opening of the attack. Through the gates of the fort emerged a relief party of eighty men, cavalry in the lead, infantry hurrying behind. They circled north around some low hills, passing out of sight of the fort. Ahead of the soldiers, retreating back up the slope of a ridge, were ten Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, all practicing the oldest ruse of warfare on the plains. Each man in his own way was hurrying without hurrying, like a quail skittering through the brush away from her nest, trailing a wing, showing herself to hungry fox or coyote. It was the custom of decoys to lure and tantalize-to taunt the soldiers with shouted insults, to show their buttocks, to dismount and check their horses feet as if they were lame. The decoys would linger back, just at the edge of rifle shot, almost within reach. This moment had a long history. Fort Phil Kearny was the first of three posts established in the early summer of 1866 to protect whites traveling north to the Montana goldfields along a new road named after the man who had mapped it out a year earlier, John Bozeman. For twenty- five years the Sioux Indians had traded peacefully with whites at Fort Laramie two hundred miles to the south and east, but the Bozeman Road threatened their last and best hunting country. The chiefs spoke plainly; the whites must give up the road or face war. In June, they had been invited to gather at Fort Laramie, where white officials hoped to patch together some kind of agreement for use of the road. A friendly chief of the Brul Details ISBN0375714308 Author Thomas Powers Short Title KILLING OF CRAZY HORSE Language English ISBN-10 0375714308 ISBN-13 9780375714306 Media Book Format Paperback Series Vintage Residence US Birth 1940 Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-11-01 DEWEY B Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2011-11-01 NZ Release Date 2011-11-01 US Release Date 2011-11-01 UK Release Date 2011-11-01 Place of Publication New York Pages 608 Publisher Random House USA Inc Imprint Vintage Books Illustrations 16 PP. B&W; 4 MAPS Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:37461989;

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