Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series)

The Best Book I’ve Ever Read or Listened To. By Far the Very Best. You’re cheating yourself if you don’t purchase & read or listen to this book. Bill O’Reilly really shows you the nobility & the military genius of Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Tecumseh, & Cochise. I can’t praise Bill O’Reilly’s latest book “Killing Crazy Horse” enough.

Much about the Little Big Horn, Custer and Crazy Horse has been written, there are new details in this book that I did not know, and that's what I was looking for. Great research.

Believed reviews and now perplexed by them. This book is dry as dirt. Can't think who his audience could be. Audiobook listens like a textbook. Tossed in the garbage after 1st CD. A lot of money to waste.

“Killing Crazy Horse” by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugad. Subtitled “The Merciless Indian Wars In America”. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 2020.

This book is a fairly thorough treatment of the American Indian wars in the 19th century. The book begins in 1813, and continues more or less up to 1905, when Geronimo marches in the inauguration parade of then president Teddy Roosevelt. The authors, O’Reilly and Dugard, have presented a balanced account of the atrocities committed by the Indians and the atrocities committed against the Indians.
Chapter 24, a brief chapter of four pages, records the assassination of Wild Bill Hickok in Saloon No. 10, in Deadwood, North Dakota Territory, 1876. The old cliché, about the so-called “dead man's hand, ”two black aces into black eights”, is repeated in this chapter. This is all very interesting, but this chapter neither adds to, nor subtracts from, the central theme of this book. Filler.
O’Reilly missed the opportunity of recording the 1779 Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois Nation by Major General John Sullivan, (1740-1795). He was an Irish American born in New Hampshire, and was ordered by General George Washington to destroy the power of the Iroquois Nation. Four of the Iroquois tribes, the Mohawks, Cayugas, Onondagas and the Senecas, became allies of the British and fought against the Americans, largely in upstate New York. Sullivan took 3000, or so, colonial troops up through western Pennsylvania and into Western New York Sullivan, and destroyed over 40 villages, burnt them to the ground, and left the Indians homeless and starving and homeless in the winter. Those tribes of the Iroquois Nation fled to Canada, to safety with the British, and they've been living that ever since.
Conotocaurius (Town Destroyer) was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois.
Bill O’Reilly is New York Irish (so am I, born in Hell’s Kitchen). He missed the opportunity to tell a story of the charity of the Choctaw Nation. The Great Famine, “An Gorta Mor” in Irish Gaelic, devastated Ireland from1845-1849. By some accounts, some 200 million starved to death; another 200 million Irish were forced to flee Ireland. In the winter of 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation, one of the five great southern tribes of the United States, met in a small town in Indian Territory. It was proposed that they would gather what monies they could spare. This could not be much as they had just suffered their recent removal from their tribal homelands east of the Mississippi River, as O’Reilly reports.
So, they collected about US$170, a sum roughly equivalent to US$5,000 today. Rather than use what money they had to buy badly needed resources in the new territory — land, food, housing, and so on — the tribe made the decision to send a goodly portion of their money to those who were starving and destitute in Ireland.
Ireland’s President, Mary Robinson, travelled to Oklahoma, in May 1995, to thank the Choctaw for their off generosity to the Irish 148 years ago. She said: “My coming here today goes back to an event of almost 150 years ago. I am here to thank the Choctaw Nation for their extraordinary generosity and thoughtfulness when they learned in 1847 about the plight of poor Irish famine victims.”

I not only have the Hardcover addition, but also purchased the Audio addition of Killing Crazy Horse. Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard did an excellent job in writing about Crazy Horse and the Indian Wars. I listened to the entire audio version this past Sunday, it was to good to stop listening.

unknown was a gift

Bought this on CD to listen on the trip to/from Florida/PA. Have read and listened to many O'Reilly books before and enjoyed them. The constant telling in extremely graphic details of multiple different Indian and army slaughters, over and over led us to stop listening. We get it --atrocities on both sides. Didn't need to hear for the seventh or eighth time what the Indians or the Cavalry did with their victims' genitals after severing them, about babies heads being smashed in, about intestines dragged out of living victims. If you like that kind of description, buy it, listen and enjoy. We had to 'stop the tape', heard enough repetitive descriptions of atrocities. Maybe some of that was necessary to establish the environment at the time, but not to that degree and volume.

An excellent book following the American-Indian wars. O'reily takes you incident by incident through the long struggle between expanding America and the Indian nations. Strong words take you into the center of the battle and the sorrow of the native Americans. I strong dose of Federalist Washington history gives the book great perspective. An excellent read.

An excellent book following the American-Indian wars. O'reily takes you incident by incident through the long struggle between expanding America and the Indian nations. Strong words take you into the center of the battle and the sorrow of the native Americans. I strong dose of Federalist Washington history gives the book great perspective. An excellent read.

To add to the knowledge of proud past