This compelling narrative explains how Native Americans found themselves time and again betrayed by the ever-expanding white nation of the East, fighting for lands on the edge of the shrinking frontier. Long considered a classic, this edition features an introduction by Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. A vivid, swiftly paced account of the dispossession of the Plains Indians during the half century after 1840--The New York Times Book Review,