Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-12-10
Books mentioned on #1397 - S.C. Gwynne
S. C.
Joe Rogan recommended Buffalo Bill by Steve Friesen, Coyote America by Dan Flores, and American Serengeti by Dan Flores, and discussed Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. S. C. Gwynne recommended The Heart of Everything That Is by Bob Drury and others and Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides, and discussed Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C.
Discussed“you said you got a call from your publicist because your audiobook spiked its spiking like crazy”
Where to get it
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Buffalo Bill
American Buffalo by Steve Rinella is a comprehensive non-fiction exploration of the history of North American bison and the Plains tribes, blending historical research with personal hunting narratives.
Recommended“you will see my friend Steve Rinella wrote a book called American Buffalo and I had put on Instagram how great the book was”
Where to get it
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Coyote America
Coyote America by Dan Flores is a comprehensive history of the North American coyote that explores the animal's remarkable resilience and expansion across the continent in the face of relentless eradication campaigns.
Recommended“There's a guy named Dan Flores he's got a bunch of great books and one of them is called coyote America”
Where to get it
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American Serengeti
American Serengeti by Dan Flores is a sweeping historical and ecological examination of the prehistoric and historic wildlife that once inhabited the vast plains of North America.
Recommended“He's got another one what is this other book about the the various large land animals that went extinct here in North America”
Where to get it
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown is a deeply influential historical book that chronicles the systematic displacement, broken treaties, and forced assimilation of Native American tribes in the American West through the perspective of the indigenous peoples.
Discussed“I think people are often used to the burry my heart at Wounded Knee narrative of the of Native Americans which is as victims yeah and there's no question that they were victims of a westward rolling Empire and 378 broken treaties”
Where to get it
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The Heart of Everything That Is
The Heart of Everything That Is by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin is a historical non-fiction book that chronicles the dramatic and tragic life of the Lakota Sioux leader Red Cloud during the westward expansion of the United States.
Recommended“yeah let's see the center of everything that is the heart of everything that is which is which is a version Well not a version but it was a it was a kind of doing for the Sioux what what this book did”
Where to get it
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Blood and Thunder
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides is an epic historical account detailing the American West, centring heavily on the life of Kit Carson and the turbulent conflicts involving Native American populations during the nineteenth century.
Recommended“There was another book actually they came out just before by called blood and thunder That's quite good”
Where to get it
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Crazy Horse
Discussed“Larry McMurtry wrote a pretty good book about Crazy Horse a small volume”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“there's a guy named Dan Flores he's got a bunch of great books and one of them is called coyote America he's got another one”
“I have a new book out called hymns of the Republic about the final year of the war I wrote a biography of Stonewall Jackson and so I've been kind of I took I took a right turn”
“I have a new book out called hymns of the Republic about the final year of the war”
“I wrote a biography of Stonewall Jackson and so I've been kind of I took I took a right turn”