Learn all about the life of Lakota/Sioux warrior Sitting Bull.

"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." —Los Angeles Times
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to...

Documents the life of Sitting Bull, from his youth as a warrior and rise as a tribal elder to his failed efforts to save the Lakota's land and culture through nonviolence and negiotations.

Acclaimed historian and New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick has earned a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nomination for his extraordinary works. Here he carries readers back to the 1876 battle in Montana mythologized as "Custer's Last Stand." Focusing on the charismatic Sitting Bull and the recklessly brave George Armstrong Custer, Philbrick constructs a riveting narrative of the battle that became the archetypal

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Even before the Indian Wars had ended, Cody was bringing the vanishing frontier to citizens across the land in one of America's earliest reality shows. It was so popular that it lasted for thirty years. For four months in 1885, the Lakota chief Sitting Bull appeared in Cody's Wild West show. The appearance spawned one of the earliest advertising slogans: "Foes in '76, Friends in '85"--Referring to the Little Big Horn. Sitting Bull did not participate...

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.