{"product_id":"the-fighting-cheyennes-9781646791651","title":"The Fighting Cheyennes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A long association with the Cheyennes has given me a special interest in them, and a special wish that they should be allowed to speak for themselves. What the Indians saw in the battles here described, I have learned during years of intimate acquaintance with those who took part in them.\" --George Bird Grinnell, Preface to \u003cem\u003eThe Fighting Cheyennes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fighting Cheyennes\u003c\/em\u003e (1915), by George Bird Grinnell, describes the battles fought by the Cheyennes, a Native American people originally from what is now Minnesota. In writing this book, Grinnell consulted many different people with first-hand experience in the Cheyenne wars, and presents, as he stated, \"the accounts by whites and Indians, without comment.\" One of Grinnell's main sources was the researcher George Hyde (1882-1968), who claimed to be the ghost writer for this classic book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrinnell, George Bird:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL (1849-1938), was an influential American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands, he became a conservationist and student of Native American Life. Grinnell wrote many books, of which his best known are The Fighting Cheyennes, The Cheyenne Indians, and When Buffalo Ran.","brand":"Cosimo Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922645717266,"sku":"9781646791651","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_258e0e1f-8882-4716-a920-3283f49d91a8.jpg?v=1738935942","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fighting-cheyennes-9781646791651","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}