Plenty-coups, chief of the Crows
By: Frank B. Linderman ; with a new previously unpublished essay by the author ; introduction by Barney Old Coyote, Jr. and Phenocia Bauerle ; afterword, map, and glossary by Timothy P. McCleary.
Contributors: Linderman, Frank Bird, 1869-1938.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows, 1848-1932; Crow Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, the well-known western writer who had befriended him. Plenty-coups is a classic account of the nomadic, spiritual, and warring life of Plains Indians before they were forced onto reservations.

Plenty-coups tells of the great triumphs and struggles of his own life: his powerful medicine dreams, marriage, raiding and counting coups against the Lakotas, fighting alongside the U.S. Army, and the death of General Custer."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183) and index.
Principally an autobiographical account told to F.B. Linderman.
Originally published: American : the life story of a great Indian, Plenty-Coups, chief of the Crows. New York : John Day Co., [1930].