“The Last Great Days of the Sioux Ghost Dance” by John Norman. Ballantine Books (May 1970). Cover art by Thomas Beechum.

            Standing Rock, Dakota. . .

“In the summer of the year preceding the Massacre of Wounded Knee, there was much unrest among the recently defeated Sioux.  For defeat did not sit easily on these warriors of the great plains – the transition from fighting nomad to reservation farmer did not take place, and there were those who rode secretly with the call to the Ghost Dance and war.  

“In that fateful summer there came to Standing Rock a white man, a doctor, fleeing from the threat of death – Edward Chance, who, willy-nilly, would become blood brother to the Sioux and play a powerful part in their last great uprising.  

“A broad, sweeping pioneer historical, rich with the color, the life, the terror of a time that will never be again.”  [Text from the back cover]

“Old Bear was a very old man indeed. He had seen many leaders come and go – and now he waited for one last leader, one who would throw off the yoke binding his people, one who could hurl the whites out of his lands, to bring dignity and strength and self-respect to the Sioux Nations once more.

“Old Bear knew this time would come when he found the White Buffalo.  This was to be the sign.  The coming of the White Buffalo would mean blood and death and glory once again. . .” [Introduction]

Taken in: United States / Virginia / Washington Forest (show map)

Taken on: June 17, 2023

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The Last Great Days of the Sioux Ghost Dance

John Norman

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