![]() The Cheyenne were led by Dull Knife and Little Wolf. They left the Indian Territory in September 1878 and their expedition ended in April 1879. The climate and the environment were so different from their native land that they decided to leave the reservation to go back to the Black Hills and the Powder River county in Montana, where they came from and where they belonged. ![]() In this Southern Cheyenne reservation that was part of the Indian Territory, they suffered from malaria and hunger. Instead of that, they were sent at the reservation at Fort Reno, Oklahoma, about 1600 km south. They expected to settle in the same reservation as the Sioux, according to the stipulation the Fort Laramie Treaty that they had both signed in 1868. Howard Fast relates the Northern Cheyenne Exodus and the Fort Robinson Massacre. After the battle of Little Big Horn, the Cheyenne chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf surrendered at Fort Robinson in 1877. The Last Frontier is what we call in French a récit. ![]() ![]() I’ve mentioned them before, they have a gift to bring fantastic American writers to the French public. So the billet comes now. I have The Last Frontier in French, the translation dates back to 2014 and this title belongs to the Totem collection of publisher Gallmeister. I’m on holiday, so I have time to read and I’m early to post about it but that’s the kind of book you want to share immediately. ![]() This month our Book Club has selected The Last Frontier by Howard Fast. ![]()
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