Description
In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight. Alan Boye provides an introduction to this Bison Books edition.
Author: Mari Sandoz
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780803293410
ISBN10: 0803293410
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- History | United States | 19th Century
Author: Mari Sandoz
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780803293410
ISBN10: 0803293410
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- History | United States | 19th Century
About the Author
A historian and a novelist, Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) is the author of Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas and Old Jules, both available in Bison Books editions. Alan Boye is a professor of English at Vermont's Lyndon State College. He is the author of Holding Stone Hands: On the Trail of the Cheyenne Exodus (Nebraska 2001).