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Author Brown, Dee, 1908-2002.

Title Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown ; with a foreword by Hampton Sides.

Imprint New York : Sterling Innovation, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  978.00497 Q BROWN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  970.5 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  970.1 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  970.4 BRO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  978.0049 BROWN    Check Shelf
Edition Illustrated ed.
Description xiv, 544 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-534) and index.
Contents "Their manners are decorous and praiseworthy" -- The long walk of the Navahos -- Little Crow's war -- War comes to the Cheyennes -- Powder River invasion -- Red Cloud's war -- "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" -- The rise and fall of Donehogawa -- Cochise and the Apache guerrillas -- The ordeal of Captain Jack -- The war to save the buffalo -- The war for the Black Hills -- The flight of the Nez Percés -- Cheyenne exodus -- Standing Bear becomes a person -- "The Utes must go!" -- The last of the Apache chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded Knee.
Summary Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
Subject Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
West United States. (OCoLC)fst01243255
Genre/Form Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
Illustrated works.
Subject Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- Wars. (OCoLC)fst00969954
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
Indigenous peoples -- West (U.S.)
Subject West (U.S.) -- History.
ISBN 9781402760662 (hardcover)
1402760663 (hardcover)
9781402793370 (pbk.)
1402793375 (pbk.)
9781402770975
1402770979
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