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Sitting Bull.(Brief article)(Book review)
In the early eighteen-seventies, General Philip Sheridan, preparing to move into the Black Hills, in blatant violation of the Treaty of Fort Laramie, began hearing about an Indian named Sitting Bull. The stories, vague and portentous, caused Sheridan to wonder, Yenne writes, whether Sitting Bull was "a real person, or merely an allegory." Sitting Bull became "the most famous of American Indians," vilified as the "murderer of Custer" and romanticized as the greatest chief of the Plains. Yenne's book excels as a ...
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