Little Big Man (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Berger
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: 1852-1876 and 1952-1953
- Setting: Western United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Historical fiction, Picaresque fiction, Adventure, Western fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Values, Family or family life, Memory, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Individuality, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Ethnic relations, Adventure, Intermarriage, Soldiers, Westerns, Satire, Battles
- Locales: United States
Characters Discussed
Jack Crabb, later called Little Big Man, an adventurer, pioneer, and adopted Indian, the only Caucasian survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Short, slender, red-haired, and fair-skinned, and always feeling undersized, the intrepid Jack relies on slyness and trickery to survive in his violent, tumultuous world. At about the age of ten, Jack is abducted from a wagon train in Nebraska Territory by a Northern Cheyenne tribe, and he spends the next five years with the Cheyenne, eventually becoming “Little Big Man,” a brave of the tribe. Jack’s...
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