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Little big man / a novel by Thomas Berger.
LIBRA - Special PS3552.E719 L5 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Thomas, 1924-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Cheyenne Indians--Fiction.
- Cheyenne Indians.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 440 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1989.
- Summary:
- Jack Crab, who is 111 years-old, discusses his life as a White man and as a Cheyenne Indian.
- Contents:
- 1 A Terrible Mistake 1
- 2 Boiled Dog 21
- 3 I Make an Enemy 35
- 4 Pronghorn Slaughter 45
- 5 My Education as a Human Being 51
- 6 A New Name 65
- 7 We Take on the Cavalry 79
- 8 Adopted Again 97
- 9 Sin 109
- 10 Through the Shutter 123
- 11 Hopeless 137
- 12 Going for Gold 143
- 13 Cheyenne Homecoming 157
- 14 We Get Jumped 173
- 15 Union Pacific 187
- 16 My Indian Wife 205
- 17 In the Valley of the Washita 223
- 18 The Big Medicine of Long Hair 243
- 19 To the Pacific and Back 265
- 20 Wild Bill Hickok 279
- 21 My Niece Amelia 295
- 22 Bunco and Buffalo 311
- 23 Amelia Makes Good 329
- 24 Caroline 341
- 25 Custer Again 353
- 26 Trailing the Hostiles 367
- 27 Greasy Grass 381
- 28 The Last Stand 401
- 29 Victory 415
- 30 The End 431.
- Notes:
- "Delta/Seymour Lawrence."
- "Reprinted by arrangement with Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence"--Title page verso.
- Original copyright 1964.
- Introduction by Brooks Landon ; foreword by a Man of letters and Ralph Fielding Snell.
- "Delta fiction"--Spine.
- OCLC:
- 42457134
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