Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, An Indian History Of The American West

DEE BROWN

Publication: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970, New York

First Edition. Cloth. xvii, 487pp. Illustrated with 49 full-page photographs of various American Indians. Introduction. Notes. Bibliography. Index. "A successful best-seller and pro-Indian account of the plunder of the American Indian by battle, treaty, and disease during the second half of the nineteenth century. Based on speeches made by several prominent Indian chiefs...An interesting read, but with some biased history. In a book review in a Chicago Westerners publication, historian Don Russell referred to this work as "propaganda." [This book] "is a documented account of the systematic plunder of the American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century, battle by battle, massacre by massacre, broken treaty by broken treaty...with the words of the Indians themselves, culled from testimonies and transcripts and previously unpublished writings...presents a unique and disturbing history of the American West from the Indian point of view."--Dust Jacket Description. This work has become a modern classic of western American history. An exceptionally clean, tight, fine copy in the first state of the dust jacket, which has 4 quarter-inch closed tears to bottom edge of the spine of the dust jacket and a short, mark on lower fore-edge of front panel, else a fine, bright copy. Also, laid-in is a three-page article in Time Magazine, March 19, 1973 reporting the confrontation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota between militant Indians associated with the American Indian Movement (AIM) and local, state, and federal law-enforcement..."the Second Battle of Wounded Knee".

Inventory Number: 52817