FOREVER WAR
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were victorious on the battlefield in 1876, but the Indigenous fight for land and culture rages even now.
Mark Lee Gardner is the author of The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation, Rough Riders, To Hell on a Fast Horse and Shot All to Hell, which received multiple awards, including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America. An authority on the American West, Gardner has appeared on PBS’s American Experience, as well as on the History Channel, AMC, the Travel Channel, and on NPR. He has written for National Geographic History, American Heritage, the Los Angeles Times, True West, and American Cowboy. He holds an MA in American Studies from the University of Wyoming and lives with his family at the foot of Pikes Peak.T
HERO
Like numerous U.S. presidents, the commander of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War turned his combat experience into political gold.