Saga of the Sioux

Adapting one of the benchmark histories of the American West for a younger audience was both a tremendous opportunity and a tremendous obligation. I am profoundly grateful for the help and support of a number of people. First and foremost among those is Linda Luise Brown, Dee Brown's daughter and head of his estate whose permission and encouragement made this edition possible. Sally Doherty and Rebecca Hahn provided invaluable guidance and suggestions in the many stages of the manuscript and image acquistion process. I must also thank Patrick Collins and Meredith Pratt for their enthusiasm and skill in turning the many raw elements into a polished book. I am grateful that my daughter, Léa Zimmerman, agreed to help her harried father and create the maps that are so essential in making clear the complex movements that occur during a battle. I am especially grateful to my agent, George Nicholson of Sterling Lord Literistic, whose support and dedication throughout this project never wavered. Finally, I must thank my wife, Joë lle, for her common sense and wisdom in yet another marathon effort of writing.

For a complete list of Dee Brown’s original source material, see Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, from which this book is derived. Sources for the Introduction and Epilogue include Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, David J. Wishart, editor (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004); Republic of Lakotah website (www.republicoflakotah.com); U.S. v. Dennis Banks, 73-5034, 73-5062, 14, 15 (1974); U.S. v. Russell Means, 73-5035, 73-5063, 14, 15 (1974).

Image credits: here–here, istockphoto 7667507 © Ken Canning; here, © Jim Cortez ; here, New Ulm map courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Call # G4144.N4A3 1870.R8 Rug 112; here, Fort Philip Kearney map courtesy of Wikipedia; here, postage stamp of Crazy Horse courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service. All other images courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog; reproduction numbers are included with each caption.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brown, Dee Alexander.

Saga of the Sioux: an adaptation from Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee /
[adapted by] Dwight Jon Zimmerman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN: 978-1-4668-8261-4

1. Indians of North America—Wars—West (U.S.) 2. Indians of North America—West (U.S.)
3. West (U.S.)—History. I. Zimmerman, Dwight Jon. II. Brown, Dee Alexander.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. III. Title.

E81.B754 2011 978—dc22 2011004792