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Plenty-Coups : Chief of the Crows

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"Provides an insight into Indian culture that can never again be captured." - "American Book Collector".

In his old age the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians told the exciting story of his life to Frank B.

Linderman, the well-known western writer who had befriended him. Originally published in 1930, "Plenty-coups: Chief of the Crows" is recognized as a classic account of the Plains Indian's vanished way of life.

The great chief speaks eloquently of the highlights of his own life: his medicine dream, his late marriage, the death of General Custer.

But, significantly, he refuses to speak of the time after the passing of the buffalo. "Linderman scores a major triumph in translating these vivid recollections into a genuine record of Indian life," wrote the reviewer for Arizona and the West.

Frank B. Linderman is the author of "Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows", available as a Bison Book.

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University of Nebraska Press
0803251211 / 9780803251212
Paperback
970.2
01/06/1962
United States
327 pages, illustrations
134 x 204 mm, 345 grams
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