By George Bird Grinnell
"A lengthy organization with the Cheyennes has given me a distinct curiosity in them, and a different want that they need to be allowed to talk for themselves. What the Indians observed within the battles right here defined, i've got realized in the course of years of intimate acquaintance with those that took half in them."-George chicken Grinnell.
Without severe remark or biased judgement, George poultry Grinnell-one of the really nice historians of the yankee Indian-has recorded the key battles that the Cheyennes fought. during this account the complete gallery of the heroic Cheyenne chiefs and warriors-Roman nostril and Black Kettle and boring Knife and lots of others-emerge in complete colour as they wrestle the best enemy of all: the failure of the white guy to appreciate and enjoy their lifestyle and his lack of expertise in their genuine capability for peace and cooperation.
"[Grinnell’s] integrity, sincerity, sympathy, and realizing made him welcome in each tipi. . . . He used to be one of many only a few historians who knew the way to get real details from Indians, and the way to give issues as they observed them in readable form."–Stanley Vestal within the foreword.
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