The Smell of Coffee and Bacon

[Dietmar]

Funny title, isn´t it?

I stumbled upon this article by Tom Powers while searching for information on High Bear, a Sans Arc Lakota (he is mentioned within the text). Please read the article, it´s brilliant. Don´t get discouraged, you have to scroll to page 47 in this pdf to find it:

The Smell of Coffee and Bacon - Cultural Differences on the Great Plains
by Thomas Powers

www.americanacademy.de/uploads/media/BJ15_Web.pdf

[Diane Merkel]

Tom has posted on the LBH board, so perhaps he'll stop by here one day. Thanks for finding the article, Dietmar!

[Dietmar]

If you look at the end at this article, it´s interesting to note that Thomas Powers writes on a book titled "The Killing of Crazy Horse".

[Diane Merkel]

Yes, that's how I first "met" him. He has been working on the book for several years. He has diverse interests, including Germany's attempt to have an atomic bomb in World War II and the anti-war underground movement of the 1960s in the US. If this article is an indication of the quality of his work about Crazy Horse, it should be a great book!

[Dietmar]

Tom Powers book will be finally out soon:



www.amazon.com/Killing-Crazy-Horse-Thomas-Powers/dp/0375414460/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284394950&sr=1-1

The Killing of Crazy Horse [Hardcover]
Thomas Powers

Product Description
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century.

The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many sources of fear and misunderstanding that resulted in an official killing hard to distinguish from a crime. A rich cast of characters, whites and Indians alike, passes through this story, including Red Cloud, the chief who dominated Oglala history for fifty years but saw in Crazy Horse a dangerous rival; No Water and Woman Dress, both of whom hated Crazy Horse and schemed against him; the young interpreter Billy Garnett, son of a fifteen-year-old Oglala woman and a Confederate general killed at Gettysburg; General George Crook, who bitterly resented newspaper reports that he had been whipped by Crazy Horse in battle; Little Big Man, who betrayed Crazy Horse; Lieutenant William Philo Clark, the smart West Point graduate who thought he could “work” Indians to do the Army’s bidding; and Fast Thunder, who called Crazy Horse cousin, held him the moment he was stabbed, and then told his grandson thirty years later, “They tricked me! They tricked me!”

At the center of the story is Crazy Horse himself, the warrior of few words whom the Crow said they knew best among the Sioux, because he always came closest to them in battle. No photograph of him exists today.

The death of Crazy Horse was a traumatic event not only in Sioux but also in American history. With the Great Sioux War as background and context, drawing on many new materials as well as documents in libraries and archives, Thomas Powers recounts the final months and days of Crazy Horse’s life not to lay blame but to establish what happened.
About the Author
Thomas Powers is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and writer best known for his books on the history of intelligence organizations. Among them are Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda; Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb; and The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. For most of the last decade Powers kept a 1984 Volvo at a nephew’s house in Colorado, which he drove on frequent trips to the northern Plains. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Candace.

Hardcover: 592 pages
Publisher: Knopf (November 2, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0375414460
ISBN-13: 978-0375414466

[Diane Merkel]

Great news!