The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull

Robert M. Utley

Ballantine Books, 1994 - Biography & Autobiography - 413 pages

Few figures in American history have been so little understood as Sitting Bull. This first authoritative study of any Native American leader considers the legendary warrior in terms of his people's cultural values, exposes many ironies of Indian-white relations, and more. Photos. Maps. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

About the author

Robert M. Utley, former Chief Historian & Assistant Director of the National Park Service, is the author of many books & articles on the West, "Cavalier in Buckskin", also published by the University of Oklahoma Press, won the 1989 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book & was a Book-of-the-Month Club & History Book Club selection. Since his retirement from the federal government, he has devoted himself full time to historical research & writing.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull; Native american/history; The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, Robert M. Utley
• Author: Robert M. Utley
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1994
• ISBN: 0345389387, 9780345389381
• Length: 413 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General; Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas