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Deadwood. Oro, revólveres y whisky en el salvaje Oeste

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464 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2026

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Peter Cozzens

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Peter Cozzens is the award-winning author of seventeen books on the American Civil War and the West. Cozzens is also a retired Foreign Service Officer.

His most recent book is A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023). Cozzens's next book is Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West (Knopf: September 2025).

Cozzens's penultimate book, Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation, was published by Knopf in October 2020. It won the Western Writers of America Spur Award and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize.

His The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West was published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2016. Amazon selected it as a Best Book of November 2016. Smithsonian Magazine chose it as one of the ten best history books of 2016. It has won multiple awards, including the Gilder-Lehrman Prize for the finest book on military history published worldwide. It also was a London Times book of the year and has been translated into several languages, including Russian and Chinese.

All of Cozzens' books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, and/or the Military Book Club.

Cozzens’ This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga and The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga were both Main Selections of the History Book Club and were chosen by Civil War Magazine as two of the 100 greatest works ever written on the conflict.

The History Book Club called his five-volume Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars "the definitive resource on the military struggle for the American West."

His Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign was a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2009.

He was a frequent contributor to the New York Times "Disunion" series, and he has written articles for Smithsonian Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, True West, America's Civil War, Civil War Times Illustrated, and MHQ, among other publications.

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.

Cozzens is a member of the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize, the Western Writers Association, the Authors' Guild, and the Army and Navy Club.

Cozzens and his wife Antonia Feldman reside in Maryland.

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June 15, 2026
Magnífico ensayo de divulgación donde Cozzens vuelve a deleitar cada uno de nuestros sentidos pues uno huele la mugre, saborea el bourbon, toca el oro, se deleita con la vista de las Black hills y oye los cañones de agua que socavan las montañas sagradas de los lakotas en busca del metal aurífero. Deadwood nace de un expolio para convertirse en pocos meses en uno de los símbolis del Far West. Por tanto, y gracias a la genialidad narrativa de su autor, uno paladea con gusto cada una de sus páginas. Un libro que se lee como una novela de las buenas al seguir las historias tanto de las leyendas del país como Wild Bill Hitckock, Calamity Jane o Seth Bullock como de villanos como Al Sweringen y los asaltadores de diligencias y ladrones de caballos. Pero también da voz a personajes anónimos (mineros, prostitutas, chinos, tenderos,...) que dieron sentido al nacimiento de aquella ciudad tan demonizada como legendaria. No olvida el autor a los grandes damnificados de este nacimiento: el medioambiente y a sus originales pobladores: los lakotas que vieron como los blancos mancillaron por la fiebre del oro su territorio sagrado. Lo dichi, un libro excepcional imprescindible para los amantes de la historia del siglo XIX, del western y de los curiosos en general.
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June 25, 2026
«Para muchos de nosotros, el imaginario del Salvaje Oeste está pavimentado con fotogramas de John Ford, duelos al atardecer y las páginas de las novelas de a duro. En el terreno televisivo, la obra maestra de David Milch para la HBO, Deadwood, logró redefinir el wéstern y el drama de la pequeña pantalla de la misma manera que lo hicieron Los Soprano o The Wire. Sin embargo, la ficción siempre acaba rindiéndose, en mayor o menor medida, a la leyenda. Por eso, cuando un gigante de la historiografía norteamericana como Peter Cozzens —avalado por obras cumbre de la temática como La tierra llora— decide clavar su pico y su pala en las Black Hills de Dakota del Sur, el resultado es un magistral ejercicio de disección histórica. Con Deadwood. Oro, revólveres y whisky en el salvaje Oeste, el autor demuestra que las crónicas reales de este infame asentamiento son igual de apasionantes que los productos televisivos, confirmando de paso la portentosa labor de documentación que precedió a la famosa serie».

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