Research Catalog

Title

Cheyenne autumn / by Mari Sandoz ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Alan Boye.

Author

Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Boye, Alan, 1950-

Description

xxvi, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map; 21 cm.

Summary

"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."--Amazon.com.

Subjects

• Biographies
• History
• collective biographies
• Dull Knife > Feldzug <1878-1879> > Belletristische Darstellung
• Cheyenne Indians > Government relations
• Cheyenne Indians > History
• Cheyenne Indians > Kings and rulers > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• History
• History.
• Biographies.

Note

• Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1953.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-275) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sixty lodges standing -- Ahh-h, buffalo -- Shooting, and soldiers going back -- The first man killed -- Soldiers, soldiers, and the flooding Arkansas -- A soldier chief dead -- Sappa, meaning black -- To make the bad heart good -- The parting -- Out of the blizzard -- The rejection -- Stepping aside -- In the barracks -- The fasting -- The ordeal begins -- This is the place -- This remnant -- And now the Yellowstone.

ISBN

0803293410 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2005009164
• 9780803293410 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC

• 58985601
• SCSB-11710315

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library