Cheyenne Autumn (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mari Sandoz
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1878-1879
- Setting: The Great Plains, from Indian Territory to the Yellowstone Country
- Principal Characters: Little Wolf, Dull Knife, Little Finger Nail, Red Cloud, Lieutenant William P. Chase, Captain Wessells, Black Coyote
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Blizzards, United States or Americans, Racism, Gender roles, Nineteenth century, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Ethnic groups, Ethnic relations, War, Massacres, Biography
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
The Novel
Although based on intensive research, and supplemented by notes on sources, a map, and an index, Cheyenne Autumn is in fact an epic novel in which Sandoz employs dialogue and other fictional devices to re-create the historical event that is her subject. The novel recounts the fifteen-hundred-mile flight of the Northern Cheyenne in 1878-1879 from the Indian Territory back to their homeland in the Yellowstone Country. After the Cheyenne surrendered to General Miles in the spring of 1877, they were promised good treatment and an agency in their north country, but...
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