Book · 1970 · Nonfiction

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Name: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Author: Dee Brown

An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

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.

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