The Heart Of Everything That Is: The Untold Story Of Red Cloud, An American Legend; Bob Drury And Tom Clavin

c. 2013

Inside jacket

• only American Indian in history to defeat the US Army in war
• forced the government to sue for peace on his terms
• at peak of his powers, Sioux could claim one-fifth of the contiguous US
• book based on rediscovery of a lost autobiography
• born in 1821 near the Platte River in modern-day Nebraska

A good history of the Plains Indians -- pp. 38 and following

The seven Lakota bands, at the time of Lewis and Clark expedition:

• Oglalas,
• Brules,
• Miniconjous, 
• Sans Arcs,
• Two Kettles,
• Hunkpapas, 
• Blackfoot-Sioux
• it was also around this time that the Lakota had their first encounter with Indians who owned horses: the Arikara; the Arikara, or Rees, were the first people the Sioux had ever seen who incorporated the animal into their culture
• Arikaras (Rees) probably got their horses from the southern Kiowa
• the Rees decimated by three epidemics of smallpox; eventually replaced by Red Cloud's Sioux

Great discussion of the South Dakota badlands -- pp. 45 and following

Wind Cave of the Black Hills -- p. 50





Prologue: Paha Sapa (Sioux: the Black Hills)

Part I: The Prairie

First Contact
Guns and Badlands
The Black Hills and Beyond
"Red Cloud Comes"
Counting Coup
"Print the Legend"

Part II: The Invasion

Old Gabe
The Glory Road
Pretty Owl and Pine Leaf
A Blood-Tinged Season
A Lone Stranger
Samuel Colt's Invention
A Brief Respite
The Dakotas Rule

Part III: The Resistance

Strong Hearts
An Army in Shambles
Blood on the Ice
The Great Escape
Bloody Bridge Station
The Hunt for Red Cloud
Burn the Bodies; Eat the Horses

Part IV: The War

War is Peace
Big Bellies and Shirt Wearers
Colonel Carrington's Circus
Here Be Monsters
The Perfect Fort
"Mercifuly Kill All the Wounded"
Roughing It
A Thin Blue Line
Fire in the Belly
High Plains Drifters

Part V: The Massacre

Fetterman
Dress Rehearsal
Soldiers in Both Hands
The Half-Man's Omen
Broken Arrows
"Like Hogs Brought to Market"
Fear and Mourning

Epilogue