Civil and Indian Wars with Peter Cozzens
TOPIC: Deadwood, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane: The Births of Three Legends
SPEAKER: Peter Cozzens, Author
The presentation will scrutinize the birth and evolution of three of the most legendary subjects of the Wild West. It will also look at how Deadwood provoked the most consequential Indian War in the West.
NOTE: This presentation will be via Zoom in Wolfe Hall.
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Cozzens is the international award-winning author and editor of nineteen books on the American Civil War and the American West. Cozzens retired after a thirty-year career as a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State. Before joining the Foreign Service, he served as a captain in the U. S. Army. His book The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West received the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History for the best military history work in the English language. In December 2024, the Economist selected it as one of the seven greatest military history books ever written.
In 2002, Cozzens received the American Foreign Service Association’s highest award, given annually to one Foreign Service Officer for exemplary moral courage, integrity, and creative dissent. He has also received an Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater, Knox College.
His most recent book is Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West.
