The heart of everything that is: the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend

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The story of the Ogala Sioux chief Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian commander of the Plains who witnessed the opening of the West and forced the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him. THE PRAIRIE: First Contact -- Guns and Badlands -- The Black Hills and Beyond -- "Red Cloud Comes!" -- Counting Coup -- "Print the Legend" -- 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 Rise -- 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 Horse -- THE WAR: War Is Peace -- Big Bellies and Shirt Wearers -- Colonel Carrington's Circus -- Here Be Monsters -- The Perfect Fort -- "Mercifully Kill All the Wounded" -- Roughing It -- A Thin Blue Line -- Fire in the Belly -- High Plains Drifters -- THE MASSACRE: Fetterman -- Dress Rehearsal -- Soldiers in Both Hands -- The Half-Man's Omen -- Broken Arrows -- "Like Hogs Brought to Market" -- Fear and Mourning.