After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
“In this original new book, Paul Hedren relates one of the great tales in American history—how the Sioux and Cheyenne, lords of the northern plains, were stripped of their land and confined to reservations. Hedren begins where most historians have ended: at the moment when the shooting stopped.  What came next is the meat ofAfter Custer—establishing military posts, building railroads, killing the buffalo. The story of this conquest, told with a wealth of new detail, is sometimes sad but always dramatic.”—Thomas Powers, author ofThe Killing of Crazy Horse