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Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 22. Inventory ID 657178. Hardcover Cloth 487 pages. Condition Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated First edition Tenth printing 1971. Worn embossed red buckram boards with faded blue and silver embossing on this tight and sound copy with no marks or highlights. Notable shelf wear with stains to boards and bumped corners. Edges have the usual yellowing and stains. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket now protected by Brodart cover is discolored with age and shows considerable shelf wear - tears wrinkles scratches wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. A great reading copy of the classic bestselling history. The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking.Impossible to put down." Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won. Dee Brown (1908-2002) was an American author, historian, and librarian best known for writing about the American West and Native American history. Brown wrote more than 30 books during his career and helped change the way many Americans understood the history of the American West.…