By Cheyenne Campfires (Bison Book S) - Softcover

Grinnell, George Bird

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803257465 ISBN 13: 9780803257467

Publisher: Bison Books, 1971

Synopsis

Here are the folk tales of the Cheyenne--stories of their heroes, their wars, their relationships with supernatural powers--as told to George Bird Grinnell during the winter months in Cheyenne tipis. "Of all the books written about Indians," say Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Benzel in The Golden Age of American Anthropology, "none comes closer to their everyday life than Grinnell's classic monograph on the Cheyenne. Reading it, one can smell the buffalo grass and the wood fires, feel the heavy morning dew on the prairie."

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Here are the folk tales of the Cheyenne-stories of their heroes, their wars, their relationships with supernatural powers-as told to George Bird Grinnell during the winter months in Cheyenne tipis.

Review:

"To read such a book as this collection of Cheyenne folklore is to realize anew and more vividly the tragedy of the passing of the Indian race and to feel for it a heightened interest and regret."—New York Times (New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0803257465
• ISBN 13: 9780803257467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 309