The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory

by James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers

Book Overview

Winner of the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, Center for Great Plains Studies A Kansas Notable Book The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an iconic event in American Indian history. It also looms large in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The story has been told by historians and novelists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806143703
• ISBN13: 9780806143705
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.1"