Search Books

The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians

Author Ralph K. Andrist
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
📄 Viewing lite version Full site ›
🌎 Shop on Amazon — choose country
⌛ 🇬🇧 United Kingdom pricing being fetched… Prices will appear once fetched — usually within a few minutes.
Share:
Book Details
ISBN / ASIN0806133082
ISBN-139780806133089
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧

Description

This compelling narrative explains how Native Americans found themselves time and again betrayed by the ever-expanding white nation of the East, fighting for lands on the edge of the shrinking frontier. Long considered a classic, this edition features an introduction by Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

"A vivid, swiftly paced account of the dispossession of the Plains Indians during the half century after 1840—The New York Times Book Review,