The Earth Is Weeping

The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

By: Peter Cozzens

Narrated by: 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.

The American Indian perspective not dent shared

Loved all about the knowledge in this book. Definitely a book worth listening to twice!

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?"