Cheyenne AutumnU of Nebraska Press, 1 janv. 1992 - 282 pages In 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 the Yellowstone country. This saga of their heart-breaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight is by the author of Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas and Old Jules, also available as Bison Books. |
Table des matières
Gone Before I | 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 |
To Make the Bad Heart Good | 96 |
The Parting | 106 |
IO Out of the Blizzard | 118 |
The Rejection | 130 |
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