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Life of George Bent : written from his letters
- Title
- Life of George Bent : written from his letters / by George E. Hyde ; edited by Savoie Lottinville.
- Author
- Bent, George, 1843-1918
- Publication
- Norman [Oklahoma] : University of Oklahoma Press, [1968]
- ©1968
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E99.C53 B44 1968 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxv, 389 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- An authentic eyewitness account, by the half-Cheyenne son of William Bent of Bent's Fort, of events on the Great Plains, 1826-1875.
- Alternative Title
- Life of George Bent written from his letters
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- History
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 370-371.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Editor's foreword -- My people, the Cheyennes -- The medicine arrows are lost -- Bent's Fort -- White war and Indian skirmishes -- Conflict on the Upper Arkansas -- Disaster at Sand Creek -- The great raids -- Powder River -- Hancock, Custer, and Roman Nose -- Medicine lodge -- The death of Roman Nose -- Battle of the Washita -- Summit Springs -- The Fetterman fight -- Adobe Walls.
- ISBN
- 0806115777
- 9780806115771
- LCCN
- 67015574
- OCLC
- ocm00946247
- 946247
- SCSB-211346
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library