Book · 1970 · Nonfiction

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West
Holt Paperbacks (Macmillan) · 487 pages
★ 6.8 editorial score

Thirty years of broken treaties, forced marches, and massacres, told from inside the Cheyenne, Navajo, Apache, and Lakota camps. Dee Brown ended the frontier myth for a generation of American readers.