Ebook: Cheyenne Autumn

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 Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight. Alan Boye provides an introduction to this Bison Books edition.;Books by Mari Sandoz; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Region of Cheyenne Resistance, 1846-1879; The People and the Time; Gone Before; 1. Sixty Lodges Standing; 2. Ahh-h, Buffalo; 3. Shooting, and Soldiers Going Back; 4. The First Man Killed; 5. Soldiers, Soldiers, and the Flooding Arkansas; 6. A Soldier Chief Dead; 7. Sappa-Meaning Black; 8. To Make the Bad Heart Good; 9. The Parting; 10. Out of the Blizzard; 11. The Rejection; 12. Stepping Aside; 13. In the Barracks; 14. The Fasting; 15. The Ordeal Begins.