Long considered a classic, this edition features an introduction by Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."A vivid, swiftly paced account of the dispossession of the Plains Indians during the half century after 1840—The New York Times Book Review,

    Centered on Red Cloud’s career, this is an admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study of the relations between the Sioux and the United States government during the years after the Civil War.