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Turn the Stars Upside Down
The Last Days and Tragic Death of Crazy Horse
by Terry C. Johnston
ISBN: 0312277571
ISBN-13: 9780312277574
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
In this, the 16th volume of the Plainsman series, Chief Crazy Horse is betrayed at every turn by his friends, enemies, and everyone else as he tries to save his tribe.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 2001
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.5 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Pages: 329
Publisher's Notes
The greatest war chief the Lakota people had ever known reluctantly leads his people into an uncertain future... The compelling and little-known story of Crazy Horse's surrender scant months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people. For all his life this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless ones. But surrounded now on a tiny red island in a sea of white, he finds himself powerless against the forces arrayed against him in what will ultimately be his last battle, waged against deceptive army officers, and even against Oglala leaders who whisper, connive and conspire behind his back to bring about his fall. Even more disastrous will be those friends who once fought at his side against the encroaching white tide--friends who now turn against him, joining his enemies in their betrayal of this last great hero of the Lakota people. Terry C. Johnston, America's award-winning, best-selling frontier author, brings all his talent to bear on this tragic tale of betrayal with all the immediacy and emotion he has so skillfully portrayed in thirty previous novels. No story of the Indian Wars would be complete without this final episode in the short life of Crazy Horse, this story of betrayal...and the ultimate victory of the human spirit.
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Turn the Stars Upside Down: The Last Days and Tragic Death of Crazy Horse: The Plainsmen Series, Book XVI
Johnston, Terry C
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Glanzman, Lou (jacket art). Black illustrated jacket with light edge wear, short shallow crease on back flap, NOT price-clipped. Black boards with light wear. Text clean, binding solid and square. 329 pages. Sewn binding, paper over boards, 24 cm. ( more information)
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TURN THE STARS UPSIDE DOWN
Johnston,Terry C
NY: NY: St.Martins Press, 2001, 2001. Hardcover,AS NEW in like dustjacket. First print,never read. 329 pgs.. Hardcover. ( more information)
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