Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

Macmillan, May 15, 2007 - History - 481 pages

The landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary.

First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. It was the basis for the 2007 movie of the same name from HBO films.

Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. A forceful narrative still discussed today as revelatory and controversial, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee permanently altered our understanding of how the American West came to be defined.

Contents

• Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy: 1
• The Long Walk of the Navahos: 13
• CHAPTER TWO 1 Manuelito: 17
• Juanita wife of Manuelito: 19
• Navaho warrior of the 1860s: 35
• Little Crows War: 37
• Big Eagle: 49
• War Comes to the Cheyennes: 67
• CHAPTER FOUR 6 Cheyenne and Arapaho Chiefs in Denver: 81
• Little Raven: 85
• George Bent and his wife Magpie: 93
• Edmond Guerrier: 95
• Powder River Invasion: 103
• CHAPTER FIVE 10 Red Cloud: 109
• Red Clouds War: 121
• CHAPTER SIX 11 Spotted Tail: 127
• The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian: 147
• CHAPTER SEVEN 12 Roman Nose: 155
• Tosawi: 171
• The Rise and Fall of Donehogawa: 175
• CHAPTER EIGHT 14 Donehogawa Ely Parker: 176
• Cochise and the Apache Guerrillas: 191
• CHAPTER NINE 15 Cochise: 195
• Eskiminzin: 203
• The Ordeal of Captain Jack: 219
• CHAPTER TEN 17 Captain Jack: 223
• The War to Save the Buffalo: 241
• CHAPTER ELEVEN 18 Satanta: 245
• Lone Wolf: 247
• Kicking Bird: 251
• Ten Bears: 259
• White Horse: 261
• Quanah Parker: 267
• The War for the Black Hills: 273
• CHAPTER TWELVE 24 Sitting Bull: 281
• Gall: 295
• YoungManAfraidofHisHorses: 301
• Little Big Man: 309
• Crazy Horse: 311
• The Flight of the Nez Percés: 315
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN 32 Chief Joseph: 319
• X: 331
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN 33 Dull Knife: 337
• Little Wolf: 339
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN 35 Standing Bear: 361
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN 36 Ouray: 369
• Nicaagat Jack: 375
• Quinkent Douglas: 378
• Colorow: 385

About the author

Dee Brown was the author of over twenty-five books on the American West and the Civil War. His Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, considered a classic in its field, was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, and has been translated into many languages. Dee Brown died in 2002. Hampton Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine, and the author of Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, and, most recently, In the Kingdom of Ice.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West; A Holt paperback
• Author: Dee Brown
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, annotated
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2007
• ISBN: 0805086846, 9780805086843
• Length: 481 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas; History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies