Sitting Bull's war : the battle of Little Big Horn and the fight for buffalo and freedom on the plains Paul L. Hedren.
In this deeply affecting account of America's greatest Indian war, readers are quickly immersed in the world of Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes and their struggle in the 1870s to retain their lives on the buffalo prairie. Those impassioned Northern Indians faced a succession of white invaders--railroaders, borderland surveyors, prospectors, and ultimately the United States Army.In the best of days they turned back George Crook at the Rosebud and wiped out George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. But a dozen other clashes followed, and in the end these tradition-minded people could not endure the army's endless hounding. Some fled to Canada to a luring if momentary exile, but in the end one and all faced starvation, submission, and, for some, death.Personifying this traditional way of life was Sitting Bull, legendary Hunkpapa Lakota spiritualist. He was supported throughout by Crazy Horse, Spotted Eagle, Big Road, Little Wolf, and a host of other kindred traditional chiefs and headmen who, in turn, rallied thousands of like-minded men, women, and children. And yet, but for momentary glory against Crook and Custer, this was a war that could not be won. -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 163936983X
- ISBN: 9781639369836
- Physical Description: xxiii, 552 pages : illustrations, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, maps, photographs ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Pegasus Books, [2025]
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- War country, 1872-1877 map -- Medicine line country, 1877-1881 map -- Sitting Bull's war timeline -- Preface -- A time in the west -- Railroaders on the Yellowstone -- Buffalo and borders -- Black hills mayhem -- War comes to the Cheyennes first -- The great ascendancy -- Stopping the gray fox -- We wish to live! -- One day in June -- A dangerous time -- The hunted -- Red fork and belly butte -- Cruel fate of the Cheyennes -- Shock and despair in the Pine Ridge -- Defiance -- The starving years.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Mars Hill Library | 978.004 HED (Text) | 30229101448362 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/25/2026 |
