A dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, plus a novel of the Mexican War, a history of slavery on the border, a classic Western and a history of Indian wars.
Mark Lee Gardner’s The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation (Mariner/HarperCollins, $28.99) is the most ambitious American history published in 2022 (see page 18 for an excerpt). For the first time, a major scholar of the West has tackled a subject as well covered as an

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- Big Irons on the Block
- If it Moves, If it Spins, You’ll Find it Here
- America’s Sherlock Holmes
- Shooting Back
- Truth Be Known
- Working on the Railroad