Record details

• ISBN: 0803292112
• ISBN: 9780803292116
• Physical Description: xxvi, 428 pages : map ; 21 cm.
• Edition: 50th anniversary ed. / introduction by Stephen B. Oates.
• Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1992]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1942.

"A Bison book"--Spine.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422).

Formatted Contents Note:

Bk.1 The light-haired boy -- Cow tracks on the Holy Road -- The coming of the wagon guns -- The gift of ears -- Soldiers on the Blue Water -- the Great Teton council -- The song of a good name -- bk.2 The glorious warrior -- Fat times for the People -- Whites like rising flood waters -- The big year -- The hundred in the hands -- So long as grass shall grow -- Many things thrown away -- bk.3 The man of the People -- Marriage and the death of a friend -- Death, and the thieves' road -- The great encampment -- Many soldiers falling into camp -- The smoke of victory hangs low -- Sitting on the White Man's island -- A red blanket from his own -- White-man chronology.

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Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877.
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