Wil Usdi, 64: Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella

by Robert J. Conley and Conley

Book Overview

Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805-1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi's life forms the basis for this historical novella, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806146591
• ISBN13: 9780806146591
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.4"