Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man's expansion. This young adult edition relates the profoundly disturbing story of the plunder of the great Indian nations.

Dee Brown was the author of nearly twenty-five volumes on the American West and the Civil War while working as a librarian in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for many years. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a classic in its field, was a New York Times bestseller for nearly a year and has been translated into a number of languages. Dee Brown passed away in the year 2002. Outside magazine's editor-at-large, Hampton Sides, is the author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder. He was awarded the PEN USA Prize for Nonfiction in 2002.