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Title: The Lance and the Shield by Robert Utley ISBN: 0-345-38938-7 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 19 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great overview
Comment: This book brings Sitting Bull alive and takes into account many of the considerations that went into the life of Sitting Bull and the Nation Building ambitions of the emerging United States. The beginning seems slow as Sitting Bull's early life is largely intertribal warfare with Crows, but once the railroad starts intruding on Indian lands it becomes much more interesting as the complexity of diplomacy and war is examined from all angles.
The best part is the end where the tension between modernity and Plains Indians creates a conflict between Sitting Bull and the Indian agent assigned to him. The by-no-means inevitable death of Sitting Bull at the hands of tribal police chiefs echoes in eery ways the handling of Pine Ridge by Dicky Wilson in the 70s when assassination was commonplace.
I have a test for any biography. If the biography is over and you feel like you know the subject then it's well written. I rank Robert Utley up with Alison Weir as one of the best historians of our time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful and Moving Portrait of The Lakota Leader
Comment: One of the best written biographies I have ever read, and certainly one of the best ever written about any of the central figures of the Indian wars of the late 19th century. I plan on picking up a copy of Mr. Utley's biography of Custer, as well.
This book is a moving, and sympathetic portrait of a man who fought an impossible war against the forces of manifest destiny that were set against his people. I felt I really got to know Sitting Bull as a man, and as a leader. His spirit of resistance is unquestionably admirable. This is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand just how much was lost by the Lakota, and the Indian people, in the rush of white's towards the "frontier". The spirit of the Lakota leader is on par with any of the great "white" heroes of western european history. Sitting Bull is perhaps, along with Crazy Horse and Chief Joseph, one of the greatest leaders, and Americans, that this country ever produced. Mr. Utley's portrait of him paints his life's picture with pretty vivid colors, and textures. The tragic circumstances of his last years, and his death, are heartbreaking.
Definitely worth the read if you love the American West, and the American Indian people.
Rating: 5
Summary: sitting bull
Comment: I,VE.read the Lance and the Shield and i thank its one of the best books ive read in a long time, iam proud to be related to sittng bull he was one of the best heros in his time. [email protected]
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Title: Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas (50th Anniversary Edition) by Mari Sandoz, Stephen B. Oates ISBN: 0803292112 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown ISBN: 0805066691 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Last Days of the Sioux Nation by Robert M. Utley ISBN: 0300002459 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1963 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Trail of Tears by Gloria Jahoda ISBN: 0517146770 Publisher: Wings Press Pub. Date: 06 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Indian Wars by Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Robert M Utley, Wilcomb E Washburn ISBN: 0618154647 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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