Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

In Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown told the true story of how the American West was won – and rewrote history. This dramatic and shocking tale of how the lives and culture of Native Americans were destroyed by the white man's lust for land and gold features the legendary figures of Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Crazy Horse, as well as those of General Custer and Ulysses S. Grant. The tragedy of the Native Americans had haunted Dee Brown since boyhood, when he first became aware of how they lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushing westward. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the product of many years of research in an attempt to set the record straight, and on publication in 1970 it gave (and still gives) a high-voltage shock to our understanding of “how the West was won”, awakened the conscience of a nation and went on to redefine American history. It is a magnificent book, eloquent and forceful, with a compelling cast of characters – Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Cochise, General Custer, Ulysses S. Grant and many others – and heart-wrenching in its detail.