The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Utley, Robert M - 1993

Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition. Hard cover in fine condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition. * From the book, "". . . few figures in American history have so charged the imagination or been so little understood. Years in preparation and written with an eye for significant detail, Robert Utley's vivid historical biography corrects the many misconceptions about the life of the Native American leader who resisted the full force of the U.S. government for twenty-five years. At the center of this dramatic, well-paced narrative is the flesh-and-blood Sitting Bull -- a leader of his people and a man of rare complexity. Yet to the U.S. government he was merely an obstacle: one of the last troublesome remnants of resistance to the white man's inexorable westward expansion.""