{"product_id":"sitting-bulls-war-the-battle-of-little-big-horn-and-the-fight-for-buffalo-and-freedom-on-the-plains","title":"Sitting Bull's War: The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fight for Buffalo and Freedom on the Plains","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"No other historian has mined American Indian accounts of a war with the U.S. government more thoroughly than Mr. Hedren has here. As an encyclopedic recounting of the battles, skirmishes and other encounters of the Great Sioux War and of its antecedents, however, \"Sitting Bull's War\" succeeds admirably, and is a worthwhile addition to the literature on the Indian Wars of the West that students of that era will welcome.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Hedren's literary style reveals a love for his subject matter and his passion for detail and recasting the well-trod story from a new and invigorating perspective. He has written what should be considered his finest work, and will rest the historiography of the Great Plains wars going forward.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eStuart Rosebrook, \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrue West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSitting Bull's War\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Paul Hedren's \n\u003ci\u003eSitting Bull's War \u003c\/i\u003eis a captivating read that's both stirring and heartbreaking. In chronicling Sitting Bull's fierce resistance to white encroachment on the northern plains, Hedren masterfully draws upon a multitude of Lakota and Cheyenne accounts, providing fresh and welcome insights on the struggles and heroics of these freedom-loving peoples, as well as the ultimate tragedy of losing not just a war, but a deeply sacred way of life.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eMark Lee Gardner, author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Earth is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPaul L. Hedren is a retired National Park Service historian and superintendent whose thirty-seven-year career led him from Minnesota to Wyoming, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, and Nebraska. His many books have received numerous honors, including a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, a Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy \u0026amp; Western Heritage Museum, and multiple Best Book awards from the Little Big Horn Associates. He is a lifelong student of the Great Sioux War, and he is often found exploring the trails, battlefields, back corners, and sacred sites of that intriguing 1870s Indian war. When not in the field, Paul resides in Omaha, Nebraska.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e Praise for Paul L. Hedren: \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This epic battle has finally found the great writer it needed in Paul Hedren, one of our finest chroniclers of the American West. With new sources, fresh insights, and a marvelous sense of story, this is the definitive work on the Battle of the Rosebud and the compelling cast of characters involved in it.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eJames Donovan on \u003ci\u003eRosebud, June 17, 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Paul Hedren's previous works on the Sioux wars established his reputation as one of the finest historians working in this field. \n\u003ci\u003eRosebud\u003c\/i\u003e elevates that reputation to new highs. This is truly the definitive history of the Rosebud.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eRobert M. Utley on \u003ci\u003eRosebud, June 17, 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Beautifully precise accounts of the confusion of battle, the onset of fear and panic, small errors with big consequences. From the battle's first shot, things went wrong, and Hedren, a historian at the top of his game, explains why. This is a model of military narrative at its most compelling.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eThomas Powers on \u003ci\u003ePowder River: Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Hedren's chronicle of the transformation of the northern plains in the wake of the Great Sioux War makes for essential reading. After Custer is at once compelling, moving, and richly rewarding.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eJerome A. Greene on \u003ci\u003eAfter Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux County\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Fort Laramie's role in the Great Sioux War has been underestimated far too long. All of the major battles and many of the minor skirmishes fall into place because of Hedren's systematic approach and his thorough use of official records.\"-- \" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMontana: The Magazine of Western History \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eFort Laramie in 1876: Chronicle of a Frontier Post at War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eSitting Bull's War \u003c\/i\u003eis the kind of unique work that subsequent writers will depend upon for its encyclopedic grasp of people and geography within a large historical stage. I wish it had been around when I wrote about Black Elk. But it goes far beyond that. It flips the traditional point-of-view of events, so that you better understand--and even feel--the isolation and starvation that ultimately defeated the tribes in what historians often call the Great Sioux War. A book like this has been long needed.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eJoe Jackson, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Elk \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTHe Thief at the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Rather than retelling the story from the victors' viewpoint, Hedren draws heavily on Indigenous accounts and pictographic renderings, giving voice to those so often left out of the narrative. Hedren's language is precise yet accessible, striking a careful balance between scholarly rigor and readability. For anyone interested in American history, Indigenous perspectives, or stories of resistance and resilience, this book offers immense value. A superb new history.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe dramatic story of America's greatest Indian war told from perspective of the Lakotas and the Northern Cheyennes, as they fight for their way of life on the buffalo prairie.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the John M. Carroll Best Book in Indian Wars History\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this deeply affecting account of America's greatest Indian war, readers are quickly immersed in the world of Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes and their struggle in the 1870s to retain their lives on the buffalo prairie. Those impassioned Northern Indians faced a succession of white invaders--railroaders, borderland surveyors, prospectors, and ultimately the United States Army. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the best of days they turned back George Crook at the Rosebud and wiped out George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. But a dozen other clashes followed, and in the end these tradition-minded people could not endure the army's endless hounding. Some fled to Canada to a luring if momentary exile, but in the end one and all faced starvation, submission, and, for some, death. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Personifying this traditional way of life was Sitting Bull, legendary Hunkpapa Lakota spiritualist. He was supported throughout by Crazy Horse, Spotted Eagle, Big Road, Little Wolf, and a host of other kindred traditional chiefs and headmen who, in turn, rallied thousands of like-minded men, women, and children. And yet, but for momentary glory against Crook and Custer, this was a war that could not be won. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning author Paul L. Hedren has spent ten years writing this great American epic. Utilizing an array of Lakota and Cheyenne accounts, pictographic renderings, and original interviews, this is the story of a people intent only on adhering to a traditional life on the buffalo prairie. The narrative is broad and inclusive and a welcome addition to the canon of American Indian wars history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/22\/2025 pg. 1 (EAN 9781639369836, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eHedren, Paul L\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPaul L. Hedren is a retired National Park Service historian and superintendent whose thirty-seven-year career led him from Minnesota to Wyoming, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, and Nebraska. 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