The Fighting Cheyennes

A long association with the Cheyennes has given me a special interest in them and a special wish that they should be allowed to speak for themselves. What the Indians saw in the battles here described I have learned during years of intimate acquaintance with those who took part in them. --George Bird Grinnell Preface to The Fighting CheyennesThe Fighting Cheyennes (1915) by George Bird Grinnell describes the battles fought by the Cheyennes a Native American people originally from what is now Minnesota. In writing this book Grinnell consulted many different people with first-hand experience in the Cheyenne wars and presents as he stated the accounts by whites and Indians without comment. One of Grinnells main sources was the researcher George Hyde (1882-1968) who claimed to be the ghost writer for this classic book.