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Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill / Deanne Stillman.
- Title
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill / Deanne Stillman.
- Author
- Stillman, Deanne
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- xvii, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Documents the unlikely friendship between Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, tracing the events of their brief but important collaboration during Cody's 1880s Wild West Show, the impact of Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.
- Series Statement
- Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover
- Subject
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 > Friends and associates
- Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 > Friends and associates
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
- Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company > Biography
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company
- 1800-1899
- Entertainers > United States > Biography
- Dakota Indians > Kings and rulers > Biography
- Wild west shows > History > 19th century
- Dakota Indians > Kings and rulers
- Entertainers
- Friendship
- Wild west shows
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Native Americans
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Entertainers > Biography
- wild west shows > History > 19th century
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- In which public enemy number one comes home -- In which the wild west is born and dies and is resurrected from the bottom of the Mississippi River -- In which the Seventh Cavalry is defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and Buffalo Bill stars as himself in "the red right hand, or the first scalp for Custer" -- In which Sitting Bull is hired and heads east for the wild west -- In which Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill join up in the city of Buffalo, and Tatanka Iyotake reunites with Annie Oakley -- In which an Indian and a Wasichu certify their alliance across the medicine line -- In which there comes a ghost dance, or, a horse from Buffalo Bill responds to the assassination of Sitting Bull, and other instances of the last days of the wild west -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9781476773520
- 1476773521
- LCCN
- ^^2017006041
- OCLC
- 975176278
- SCSB-12647768
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library