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This new adaptation of Dee Brown's multimillion-copy bestseller,
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," is filled with photographs and
maps to bring alive the tragic saga of Native Americans for
middle-grade readers. Focusing on the Sioux nation as
representative of the entire Native American story, this
meticulously researched account allows the great chiefs and
warriors to speak for themselves about what happened to the Sioux
from 1860 to the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1891. This dramatic
story is essential reading for every student of U.S. history.
The American West centers on three subjects: Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers. Dee Brown re-creates these groups struggles for their place in this new landscape and illuminates the history of the old West in a single volume, filled with maps and vintage photographs. In his spirited telling of this national saga, Brown demonstrates once again his abilities as a master storyteller and as an entertaining popular historian.
Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial
book since its first publication in 1971, "Bury My Heart at Wounded
Knee" is universally recognized as one of those rare books that
forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now repackaged
with a new introduction from bestselling author Hampton Sides to
coincide with a major HBO dramatic film of the book, "Bury My Heart
at Wounded Knee.
""Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "is Dee Brown's classic, eloquent,
meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of
the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth
century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year
after its initial publication, it has sold over four million copies
in multiple editions and has been translated into seventeen
languages.
Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions,
Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux,
Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the
series of battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left
them and their people demoralized and decimated. A unique and
disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, "Bury My Heart at
Wounded Knee" changed forever our vision of how the West was won,
and lost. It tells a story that should not be forgotten, and so
must be retold from time to time.
As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the
last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final
stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent
Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between
these three groups as they fought for a place in this new
landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an
authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an
uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs
and ephemera from the period.
'Impossible to put down.' New York Times. This is an engrossing and unique history of the American West 1860-90 from the indigenous Indians' perspective. Woven into this account are the fascinating stories of such warriors and tribal chieftains as Sitting Bull, Cochise, Crazy Horse and Geronimo.
Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded
Knee," opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to
survive the white man's expansion. This young adult edition relates
the profoundly disturbing story of the plunder of the great Indian
nations.
The U.S. Army built Fort Phil Kearny in the foothills of Wyoming's
Bighorn Mountains in 1866 to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail
headed to Montana's gold fields. The need for this protection arose
because the Bozeman Trail cut through the heart of the last
bountiful hunting grounds of the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and
Northern Arapahos. The incursion by gold seekers led to direct
competition with the allied tribes for food and supplies, and a
series of violent encounters culminated in the Fetterman Fight on
December 21, 1866, in which the army suffered its worst defeat on
the northern plains until Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn ten
years later. The battle became a cause celebre and was the subject
of a congressional investigation. Based on army records and
firsthand reports, Dee Brown's Fort Phil Kearny: An American Saga
was the first detailed account of the battle and the loss of
Lieutenant Fetterman's eighty men. Shannon D. Smith provides an
introduction to this new edition.
"If my library of Western America was limited to a single book, I
think it would have to be this wonderful anthology. Dee Brown has
been our master." (Tony Hillerman)
"The stories of such well-known figures as Lewis and Clark, Jim
Bridger, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as well as other, more
obscure characters are told as if Brown himself had lived closely
with each. Supplemented by period photographs and illustrations,
the anthology reads like fiction but educates as well.... the best
collection of his essays, showcasing his empathetic treatment of
his subjects and his careful research, factors that have earned him
high honors." (Publishers Weekly)
Dee Brown, our foremost popular historian of the American West,
has been exploring its "true history" for more than 50 years in
some 30 books and dozens of historical articles. Known for his
forceful and well-documented narratives, Dee Brown changed the way
we look at the West. Without a political or ideological axe to
grind, he has stripped away familiar stereotypes and romanticized
images, he has always shown us the Old West as it really was. The
enormously successful book that established his reputation, Bury My
Heart at Wounded Knee (1971), forever changed our view of the
Indian.
The 25 works in this collection span 100 years of history. Brown
includes pieces on noted figures such as Lewis and Clark and
Geronimo, stories of the Pony Express riders, longhorn ranchers and
cowboys, and women who were brought to the West to marry miners and
ranchers. He offers accounts of the Trail of Tears, the Santa Fe
Trail, western settlement, the Plains Indians, war and peace
between whites and Indians, and an assortment of intrigues, crimes,
and scandals. Containing some of Brown's best work, this book will
captivate readers with an interest in a perennially fascinating
chapter of our history.
"The Fetterman Massacre" occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort
Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The
second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it
became a cause celebre and was the subject of a congressional
investigation.
All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal
about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but
soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among
those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez,
Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and
Virginia Reed.
The Catalyst started as an Easter Day gone all wrong. The root of
it was a request made years before. This is a story of an evolution
of a mind melded with the restoration of a heart. You don't want to
miss how it all unfolds! The events are factual and expressed
artistically.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Ben Butterfield, ex-circus performer, is living out his days in
a small backwater town. He spends much of his time dwelling on the
past, pondering his glory days with the circus, and his first grand
adventure--an odyssey across Missouri and Illinois to Bright Star,
Indiana, during the Civil War. It was a journey that laid the
groundwork for the man he would become, and on which he got to know
the two people who meant the world to him, and still do.
In 1862, Ben sets out to help Johnny Hawkes, a resourceful Texican,
drive two camels to the farm home of a Yankee officer who has taken
possession of the desert beasts as contraband of war. But when
Johnny is imprisoned by the Yankees and charged with horse theft,
it is up to Ben to complete the task without his friend and mentor.
On the threshold of manhood, he has only the help of a young girl,
nicknamed Princess, who spends most of the time masquerading as a
boy to avoid drawing unwanted attention. Johnny and Princess must
stand together and persevere against the odds if they are to
overcome every obstacle placed before them on the winding way to
Bright Star.
A magnificent tour of 1860s heartland America, "The Way to Bright
Star" is a grand coming-of-age novel, in the tradition of
"Huckleberry Finn," and destined to become an American classic.
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