American

By Plenty Coups Chief of the Crows

Subjects: Biography, Kings and rulers, Crow Indians, Indians of north america, west (u.s.), Plenty coups, chief of the crows, 1848-1932

Description: "In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, the well-known western writer who had befriended him. Plenty-coups is a classic account of the nomadic, spiritual, and warring life of Plains Indians before they were forced onto reservations. Plenty-coups tells of the great triumphs and struggles of his own life: his powerful medicine dreams, marriage, raiding and counting coups against the Lakotas, fighting alongside the U.S. Army, and the death of General Custer."--BOOK JACKET.