Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People

by Elizabeth A. Fenn

Book Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

Elizabeth A. Fenn radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans.

Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374535116
• ISBN13: 9780374535117
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.2"