Little Big Man

by BERGER, THOMASMCMURTRY, LARRY

• ISBN13: 9780385298292
• ISBN10: 0385298293
• Edition: 25th
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1989-09-01
• Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Summary

Believe it or not, Jack Crabb is 111 years old. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on dog, loved four wives, and saw his people butchered by horse-soldiers commanded by Custer. As a white man, he helped hunt the buffalo into extinction, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok--and lived through the showdown that followed. He also survivied the Battle of Little Bighorn, where he fought side by side with Custer himself--even though he'd sworn to kill him. The basis of a popular film, LITTLE BIG MAN, was hailed by The Nation as a "seminal event... the most significant cultural and literary trend of the [1960's]."

Author Biography

Thomas Berger, whom the London Times Book Review has called "one of the century's most important writers in the English-speaking world," is the author of more than twenty novels. He lives in New York

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Foreword	p. xix
A Terrible Mistake	p. 1
Boiled Dog	p. 21
I Make an Enemy	p. 35
Pronghorn Slaughter	p. 45
My Education as a Human Being	p. 51
A New Name	p. 65
We Take on the Cavalry	p. 79
Adopted Again	p. 97
Sin	p. 109
Through the Shutter	p. 123
Hopeless	p. 137
Going for Gold	p. 143
Cheyenne Homecoming	p. 157
We Get Jumped	p. 173
Union Pacific	p. 187
My Indian Wife	p. 205
In the Valley of the Washita	p. 223
The Big Medicine of Long Hair	p. 243
To the Pacific and Back	p. 265
Wild Bill Hickok	p. 279
My Niece Amelia	p. 295
Bunco and Buffalo	p. 311
Amelia Makes Good	p. 329
Caroline	p. 341
Custer Again	p. 353
Trailing the Hostiles	p. 367
Greasy Grass	p. 381
The Last Stand	p. 401
Victory	p. 415
The End	p. 431
Editor's Epilogue	p. 439
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