Probably this amazing story will reach only a very few of the
people who should read it. And yet it is one of the great sagas of
all time - the trek of a fearless band of people to whom home and
freedom meant infinitely more than death. The Cheyennes, aggostomed
to their Hills and woods of the Power River district in the Black
hills, ?? and faded in Indian Territory. Finally, when threats were
made against their warriors, the whole 300 survivors set out to
travel 1000 miles in enemy territory, with no more clothing than
they wore, and with the knowledge that the force of the U.S. Army
was against them. Half of the number reached "home"; a few perished
in successive fights; the balance died in the Fort Robinson
massacre, a blot on this country's none too clean record. Howard
Fast has told their story superbly. (Kirkus Reviews)
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The story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter
struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to
their home in Wyoming and Montana.
"Mr. Fast's novel will stand or fall upon its value as a
dramatic, finely presented story. It is all of that: a model, which
may easily become a classic example, of what to put in and what to
leave out in the writing of a historical novel. ... I do not
believe it is saying too much to suggest that in the person of Mr.
Fast we may have the next really important American historical
novelist". -- Joseph Henry Jackson, New York Herald Tribune
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"Fast's writing, austerely polished and austerely poetic, is
admirably suited to this epic tale of a desperate effort for
dignified survival. ... Fast has gotten to the core of this
incident and made it into a rich American novel". -- New York Times
Book Review
"An amazing restoration and reconstruction. Thecharacters
breathe, the landscape is solid ground and sky, and the story runs
flexibly along the zigzag trail of a people driven by a deep
instinct to their ancient home. I do not know any other episode in
Western history that has been so truly and subtly perpetuated as
this one. A great story lost has been found again, and as here told
promises to live for generations". -- Carl Van Doren
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