SCALP DANCE

Some of the most savage war in world  history was waged on the American Plains from 1865 to 1879.  As settlers moved west following the Civil War, they found powerful

Indian tribes barring the way.  When the U.S.  Army intervened, a bloody and prolonged  conflict ensued. 

Drawing heavily from diaries, letters, and memoirs from American Plains settlers, historian Thomas Goodrich weaves a spell-binding tale of life and death on the prairie, told in the timeless words of the participants themselves.  Scalp Dance is a

powerful, unforgettable epic that shatters modern myths.

          From the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 through Custer's Last Stand in 1876 to the final defeat of the mighty Sioux and Cheyenne nations in 1878, Scalp Dance reveals the bloody, bitter clashes between two cultures--one bent on conquest, the other defending its land in the only way it knew how.

(Military Book Club Main Selection. Doubleday Book Club Selection. 25 b&w illustrations.)