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Halfbreed

The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-- Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man

By: Andrew Masich, David Halaas

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Paperback | 16 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our nation's history. Raised as a Cheyenne but educated in white schools, George Bent fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, became a Cheyenne warrior and survived the horrific 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, rode and killed for revenge with the ferocious Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, and later became a prominent interpreter and negotiator for whites and adviser to tribal leaders. He hobnobbed with frontier legends Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and George Custer, and fought side-by-side with great Indian leaders. After a lifetime of adventures and misfortunes, accomplishments and failures, George Bent made a lasting contribution to the memory of his people by sharing with historians the story of the fighting Cheyennes.

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"Belongs on every shelf of western American history."

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Prologue	p. xi
Worlds Apart	p. 1
Growing Up Cheyenne	p. 39
In the White World	p. 67
Between Two Worlds	p. 93
Massacre at Sand Creek	p. 113
Riding with the Dog Soldiers	p. 155
Black Kettle and Magpie Woman	p. 203
Cheyenne Autumn	p. 217
Death Songs	p. 243
Walking the White Man's Road	p. 267
Lost in a New World	p. 287
Nothing Lives Forever	p. 327
Epilogue	p. 349
Notes	p. 351
Bibliography	p. 417
Index	p. 439
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Halfbreed

The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-- Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man

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