Moon of Popping Trees

Book

Moon of Popping Trees / Rex Alan Smith.

Summary:

The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies scattered along a stretch of more than a mile where they had been trying to flee. Of some 500 soldiers and scouts, about 30 were dead -- some, probably, from their own crossfire. Wounded Knee has excited contradictory accounts and heated emotions. To answer whether it was a battle or a massacre, Rex Alan Smith goes further into the historical records and cultural traditions of the combatants than anyone has gone before. His work results in what Alvin Josephy Jr., editor of American Heritage, calls "the most definitive and unbiased" account of all, Moon of Popping Trees.

Record details

ISBN: 0803291205 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780803291201 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0803241232
ISBN: 9780803241237
Physical Description: xii, 219 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1981, c1975.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Reprint of the ed. published by Reader's Digest Press, New York.

Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Bibliography: p. 205-207.
Formatted Contents Note:: Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Chapter 1: In the Moon of Popping Trees; Chapter 2: The Holy Road; Chapter 3: The Mormon Cow; Chapter 4: Growing Conflict; Chapter 5: Collision; Chapter 6: "God Damn a Potato!"; Chapter 7: Messiah; Chapter 8: Ghost Dance; Chapter 9: Panic in the North; Chapter 10: "Indians are Dancing in the Snow ... "; Chapter 11: Sitting Bull; Chapter 12: The Flight of Big Foot; Chapter 13: Wounded Knee; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.