Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warrors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. Signed first editions are decidedly scarce.įirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. Brown.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. And may our “book exchanges” continue for at least another 23! Sincerely, D.A. Downs- my Super Chief for 23 pleasant years. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For R.B. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 49 black and white reproductions of photographic portraits of Native Americans. New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.įirst edition of this landmark work. Bury My heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.īROWN, Dee.
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