Cheyenne AutumnIn 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 to this Bison Books edition. |
Contents
Gone Before | 1 |
Sixty Lodges Standing | 13 |
Ahhh Buffalo | 24 |
Shooting and Soldiers Going Back | 35 |
The First Man Killed | 47 |
Soldiers Soldiers and the Flooding Arkansas | 59 |
A Soldier Chief Dead | 71 |
SappaMeaning Black | 83 |
Stepping Aside | 148 |
In the Barracks | 168 |
The Fasting | 179 |
The Ordeal Begins | 194 |
This Is the Place | 212 |
This Remnant | 238 |
And Now the Yellowstone | 248 |
In the Aftertime | 269 |
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