Utley, Robert M

The lance and the shield : the life and times of Sitting Bull / by Robert M Utley. - First ed. - New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1993. - xcii, 413 p. ill, maps, ports ; 24 cm. - A John Macrae Book . - 9(73)(=97)(092)Sitting Bull (NLA) . - A John Macrae Book .

Includes bibliography and index

A biography of Sitting Bull, the native American leader of the Lakota Sioux whose world centred on the buffalo migrations. Utley shows how Sitting Bull's people fought for control of the hunting grounds and resisted the full force of the US Government for 25 years, but unwittingly hastened their own downfall by the defeat of Custer.

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Sitting Bull, 1831-1890.


Dakota Indians --Biography.
Dakota Indians --History --19th century

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