In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the US government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight.
"Not only in American history but in all history it is hard to find stories as moving...as this one. The highest praise one could...would be to say that it was worthy of its subject. Cheyenne Autumn deserves that accolade."
