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Description edit
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... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Setting & Locations edit
- Sioux
- Platte
- Sappa
- White River
- Flooding Arkansas
- Niobrara
- Bridge
- Washington
- Left Hand
- Buffalo Calf Road
- Pine Ridge
- Florida
- Lost Chokecherry
- Pawnee
- Great Father
- Sand Creek
- Bear Rope
- Nebraska
- Missouri
- Head
- Bull Hump
- Chadron Creek
- Washita
- Snake River
- Hog
- Long Hair
- Shangreau
- Smoky Hill
- Canada
- Texas
- White Antelope
- Turkey Springs
First Sentence edit
NOW IT WAS THE NIGHT, BUT THERE WERE NO FRIENDLY clouds to run before the face of the climbing moon.
Table of Contents edit
<List of Illustrations>
Preface
The People and the Time
Gone Before
1. Sixty Lodges standing
2. Ahh-h, Buffalo
3. Shooting, and Soldiers Going Back
4. The First Man Killed
5. Soldiers, Soldiers, and the Flooding Arkansas
6. A Soldier hief Dead
7. Sappa-Meaning Black
8. To Make the Bad Heart Good
9. The Parting
10. Out of the Blizzard
11. The Rejection
12. Stepping Aside
13. In the Barracks
14. The Fasting
15. The Ordeal Begins
16. This Is the Place
17. The Remnant
18. And Now the Yellowstone
In the Aftertime
Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Mari Sandoz (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Hastings House
Country: United Staes
Publication Date: 1953
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 282
Publisher: Hastings House
Country: United Staes
Publication Date: 1953
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 282
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 978.00497353
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