And the land will weep. How they took America away from the Native Americans

Reporting, naturalistic manner of describing the battles
The merciless truth about the longest and most brutal war that America waged
unforgettable portraits of heroes and anti -heroes of furious fights and terrible raids
The new book of Peter Kozzens, the author of the bestseller about the civil war in America, unfolds before readers a large -scale panorama of the Indian wars on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains - a series of longest and fierce battles in the history of America. As a result of furious and bloody battles, the indigenous people of the country were deprived of their lands. Based on the testimonies of the participants and archival documents, Kozsens creates bright portraits of representatives of the warring parties, without idealizing and not denigrating any of them. This stunning documentary saga allows you to look at the tragic history of the Indians on both sides - the eyes of participants in a fierce battle for the vast spaces of North America.

Quotes

Not a single period of the formation of America gave rise to such a number of myths as the era of Indian wars in the American West. For one hundred and twenty -five years, in academic and popular history, in the cinema and in literature it was depicted as an era of the absolute struggle of good and evil, in which one or the other side turned out to be villains or heroes ...

The Indians not only did not oppose a united front against the civilizational expansion from the east of the country - the tribes continued to fight among themselves. They did not have a common Indian spirit ...

None of the presidents after George Washington, the rights of the Indians did not care. Moreover, it was the executive branch that directed the process of expulsion of indigenous Americans from their native lands.

Features
The book is supplemented by numerous battles and rare photo portraits of famous participants in the Indian Wars.
For whom
For those interested in little -known pages of world history.

Expert reviews

The magnificent panoramic canvas ... The treachery of such an epic scope is worthy of endless retells, and the Kozzens book stands out among others with amazing details and coverage.

The Washington Post

Dozens of wonderful characters ... live portraits of ordinary people - representatives of both warring parties ... Volumetric, embossed, figurative history of Indian wars.

Star tribune

Kozzens does not turn a blind eye to injustice towards the Indians, but calls not to ignore the perception of the situation by the white population. In other words, the author successfully realizes his goal - to bring the ideas about the history of the Indian wars.

Wild West

Until now, the campaign in Vietnam and Afghanistan claimed the title of the longest war that America. However, in reality, the most long and most tragic war of America was a continuous, a series of armed conflicts between the US Army and the Indians on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains from the 1860s to 1890. Peter Kozzens documents this dark page of our history in sobering details.

James MacPherson, professor of history at Princeton University, Pulitzer Prize winner

About the author
Author and editor of seventeen books on the Civil War in America and about Indian wars. A retired diplomat with 30 years of experience. The holder of the highest award of the American Association of Diplomatic Service is the prize of William Rivkin. Member of the Expert Council of the Lincoln Prize