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Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas
"Written by Charles Wesley Allen from Red Cloud's reminiscences told to Sam Deon, and repeated to Allen"
Red Cloud was the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. Here, for the first time in print, is Red Cloud's "as-told-to" autobiography in which he shares the story of his early years.
Red Cloud was the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. Here, for the first time in print, is Red Cloud's "as-told-to" autobiography in which he shares the story of his early years.
Paperback
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222 pages
Published
January 1st 1997
by Montana Historical Society Press
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A very unique book but definitely not an autobiography. But kudos to the author for the hard work of publishing this text, I was very pleased to find it in existence.
Most of Red Cloud's story has been published 'third hand'. That is, he gave his story orally to a friend who then (without Red Cloud's knowledge) told them to the first writer, who wrote them into a manuscript. This manuscript was never published and then was forgotten about for 100 years where it was found by historians. The autho ...more
Most of Red Cloud's story has been published 'third hand'. That is, he gave his story orally to a friend who then (without Red Cloud's knowledge) told them to the first writer, who wrote them into a manuscript. This manuscript was never published and then was forgotten about for 100 years where it was found by historians. The autho ...more
No matter how you slice it, it's still a bit of a stretch to label this an autobiography.... It's more of a puzzle, put together by many disparate pieces spanning decades, and what we get is a vague third-person portrait of the man.
Jul 09, 2009
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Very enlightening about what Indians went through when white people took their land from them and changed everything about their world.
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