Cheyenne Autumn An American Epic Author:Mari Sandoz In quest of their homeland over 1500 miles distant, 278 Northern Cheyennes, fewer than half of them adults, fled the Oklahoma reservation in September, 1878, on what would be one of the most harrowing and courageous treks in the history of the American West. The United States Army dispatched a few troops. Before the Cheyennes were contained mont... more »hs later, more than 10,000 soldiers had been called to the great plains. This book is a distinguished historian's tribute to a tiny band of persecuted people in their defiant struggle against the armed might of a great military power.« less