Robert M. Utley - The Last Sovereigns

In The Last Sovereignsthe greatest biographer of the greatest Lakota leader delivers a superb account of Sitting Bulls last years, centering on his exile in Canada. It is both a deeply human story of Sitting Bulls friendship with a Canadian Mountie and an insightful history that puts Native resistance to conquest in an international context. A splendid read and a necessary book.

T. J. Stiles, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning Custers Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

Robert Utleys epic The Last Sovereignsis the heroic and heartbreaking saga of Sitting Bulls desperate flight into Canada before his death in 1890. The backstory of how Maj. James Morrow Walsh of the North-West Mounted Police befriended the Lakota resistance leader is brilliantly rendered. Like all of Utleys books, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the American West and Native American History. Highly recommended!

Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University and author of Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Land of America

With twenty-two acclaimed books over the last fifty-eight years, Robert M. Utley has established a reputation as the Dean of Western History. The Last Sovereignsadds luster to that well-deserved title: a masterful tale of cross-border intrigue and heroic resistance as Sitting Bull attempts to establish a new life for his people north of the medicine line separating the United States from Canada. Utleys fast-paced narrative, sharply delineated characters, and graceful prose make this a book that will appeal to all readers.

Paul Andrew Hutton, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico and author of The Apache Wars

Robert M. Utley

University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln

2020 by Robert M. Utley

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Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from the Friends of the University of Nebraska Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Utley, Robert M., 1929 author.

Title: The last sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the resistance of the free Lakotas / Robert M. Utley.

Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019053439

ISBN 9781496220226 (hardback)

ISBN 9781496222787 (epub)

ISBN 9781496222794 (mobi)

ISBN 9781496222800 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH : Sitting Bull, 18311890. | Lakota IndiansCanadaBiography. | Lakota IndiansCanadaSocial conditions19th century. | Indians of North AmericaGovernment relations18691934. | LCGFT : Biographies.

Classification: LCC E 99. T 34 U 85 2020 | DDC 978.004/97520092 [B]dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019053439

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The Sioux chief Sitting Bull is arguably the greatest Indian chief of all the tribes that roamed the American West in the nineteenth century.