Halfbreed
Subtitle: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: March 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780306814105
Subjects: Biography: general; Ethnography; Native Americans - Plains; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Native American; Native Americans; United States - 19th Century/Old West; People of Color
First sentence: William Bent was one of eleven children of Silas Bent, a prominent and well-connected judge, and Martha Kerr, a highborn Virgin The Bent farm sprawled on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River; a post-and-rail fence defined the property and prevented stray animals and roaming children from a precipitous descent into the roiling Mississippi waters.