By Cheyenne Campfires

by George Bird Grinnell and George Bird Grinnell

Book Overview

Here are the folk tales of the Cheyenne--stories of their heroes, their wars, their relationships with supernatural powers--as told to George Bird Grinnell during the winter months in Cheyenne tipis. "Of all the books written about Indians," say Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Benzel in The Golden Age of American Anthropology, "none comes closer to their everyday life than Grinnell's classic monograph on the Cheyenne. Reading it, one can smell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803257465
• ISBN13: 9780803257467
• Release Date: October 1971
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"