Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America

Bill O'Reilly · Martin Dugard

Sep 2020 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Bill O'Reilly and Robert Petkoff

About this audiobook

This program includes a prologue read by Bill O'Reilly

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers.

The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh’s alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades.

In Killing Crazy Horse bestselling authors Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught history of our country’s founding on already occupied lands, from General Andrew Jackson’s brutal battles with the Creek Nation to President James Monroe’s epic “sea to shining sea” policy, to President Martin Van Buren’s cruel enforcement of a “treaty” that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands along what would be called the Trail of Tears. O’Reilly and Dugard take listeners behind the legends to reveal never-before-told historical moments in the fascinating creation story of America.

This fast-paced, wild ride through the American frontier will shock listeners and impart unexpected lessons that reverberate to this day.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

Ratings and reviews

The title of the book to me was a little bit deceiving. A more suitable title would have been, "Killing the Native American Indians." There is definitely quite a bit on Crazy Horse but it really is a history of the wars, battles, skirmishes between the U.S. army and different tribes. I had known a lot of the history of different battles but this is pretty comprehensive and filled in a lot of holes over about 110 year period. *WARNING* This is not a PG book. It is historically accurate and gives articulate detail of atrocities done to bodies during and after the killing process. This isn't something you listen to with your kids present. I don't feel that the author is biased but does his best to simply tell the history.

I'm not an O'Reilly fan, but this is one hell of a book, I couldn't put it down. Not only is it a fascinating story, it's laid out perfectly. Great foot notes and and epilogue. I'm so thankful it wasn't narrated by Bill O'reilly.

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About the author

Bill O'Reilly is a trailblazing TV journalist who has experienced unprecedented success on cable news and in writing fifteen national bestselling nonfiction books. (There are currently more than seventeen million books in the Killing series in print.) Mr. O’Reilly does a daily podcast on BillOReilly.com, and his daily radio program, The O'Reilly Update, is heard on hundreds of stations across the country. He lives on Long Island.

Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them the Killing series, Into Africa, and The Explorers. He and his wife live in southern California with their three sons.