The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull

US: Ballantine Books, 1994. Very Good. His narrative is griping....Mr. Utley transforms Sitting Bull, the abstrac t, romanticized icon and symbol, into a flesh-and-blood person with a down- to-earth story....THE LANCE AND THE SHIELD clears the screen of the exagger ations and fantasies long directed at the name of Sitting Bull." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Reviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, rev ered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull has long been one of the most fascinating and misunderstood figures in American history. Now , distinguished historian Robert M. Utley has forged a compelling new portr ait of Sitting Bull, viewing the man from the Lakota perspective for the ve ry first time to render the most unbiased and historically accurate biograp hy of Sitting Buil to date. WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN NONFICTION HISTORICAL BOOK OF 1993 A MAIN SELECTIN OF THE HISTORY BOOK CLUB.